CBC News, Friday, July 24, 2009
The federal government has paused a four-year pilot project to test High Arctic surveillance technology at the entrance to the Northwest Passage, CBC News has learned.
As part of the Northern Watch program, scientists from Defence Research and Development Canada began installing underwater listening devices and land-based sensors on Devon Island in the summer of 2008.
If successful, the tested technology would help Canada detect ships and submarines passing through the eastern entrance to the Northwest Passage.
Contacted by CBC News, a National Defence spokesperson would only say the Northern Watch program is taking a hiatus this summer as researchers want to evaluate data the devices have collected already.
They will then decide what to do with the program, the spokesperson added.
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