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Defence procurement in Canada is a mess, with hundreds of millions of dollars being routinely wasted, despite which the Canadian Armed Forces is woefully underequipped and lacking crucial capacity. Charlie Foxtrot shows why past governments failed so spectacularly to efficiently equip and manage the CAF, and how to change that.
The Politics of Procurement by Aaron Plamondon Pdf
In 1993, Canada’s Liberal Party cancelled an order to replace the navy’s Sea King helicopter. It claimed that the Tory plan was too expensive, but the cancellation itself actually cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. Aaron Plamondon connects this incident to the larger evolution of defence procurement in Canada, revealing that partisan politics, rather than a desire to increase the military’s capabilities, have driven the military procurement process. This saga of the government playing havoc with weapons acquisition offers an explanation for, and clues for resolving, the under-equipped state of Canada’s military.
Emerging Strategies in Defense Acquisitions and Military Procurement by Burgess, Kevin,Antill, Peter Pdf
Military and defense organizations are a vital component to any nation. In order to maintain the standards of these sectors, new procedures and practices must be implemented. Emerging Strategies in Defense Acquisitions and Military Procurement is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on the present state of defense organizations, examining reforms and solutions necessary to overcome current limitations and make vast improvements to their infrastructure. Highlighting methodologies and theoretical foundations that promote more effective practices in defense acquisition, this book is ideally designed for academicians, practitioners, researchers, upper-level students, and professionals engaged in defense industries.
Defence Procurement And Industry Policy by Stefan Markowski,Peter Hall,Robert Wylie Pdf
Defence procurement remains a relatively under-researched area, mostly focusing on the USA. This revealing book looks at defence procurement from the point of view of smaller countries such as Israel, Australia, Poland and Spain.
Is War Necessary for Economic Growth? by Vernon W. Ruttan Pdf
Military and defense-related procurement has been an important source of technology development across a broad spectrum of industries that account for an important share of United States industrial production. In this book, the author focuses on six general-purpose technologies: interchangeable parts and mass production; military and commercial aircraft; nuclear energy and electric power; computers and semiconductors; the INTERNET; and the space industries. In each of these industries, technology development would have occurred more slowly, and in some case much more slowly or not at all, in the absence of military and defense-related procurement. The book addresses three questions that have significant implications for the future growth of the United States economy. One is whether changes in the structure of the United States economy and of the defense-industrial base preclude military and defense-related procurement from playing the role in the development of advanced technology in the future, comparable to the role it has played in the past. A second question is whether public support for commercially oriented research and development will become an important source of new general-purpose technologies. A third and more disturbing question is whether a major war, or the threat of major war, will be necessary to mobilize the scientific, technical, and financial resources necessary to induce the development of new general-purpose technologies. When the history of United States technology development in the next half century is written, it will focus on incremental rather than revolutionary changes in both military and commercial technology. It will also be written within the context of slower productivity growth than of the relatively high rates that prevailed in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s or during the information technology bubble that began in the early 1990s. These will impose severe constraints on the capacity of the United States to sustain a global-class military posture and a position of leadership in the global economy.
Canada's Defence Procurement Woes by Jeffrey F. Collins Pdf
This book challenges the perceived underlying causes and culprits of the ongoing challenges in Canadian defence procurement, arguing that although headlines often put the blame on the political leadership, the defence procurement bureaucracy, ongoing pressures in the defence industry and continuous demands placed on Canada though its alliances also carry a large part of the responsibility. Focusing on four main case studies: the Fixed Wing Search and Rescue Plane, the Joint Support Ships, the Medium Support Vehicle System and the Halifax Class Modernization, the author offers a comparative analysis of how these ongoing procurement efforts were dealt with by different administrations, from Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin to Stephen Harper.
Global Defense Procurement and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter by Bert Chapman Pdf
This book analyzes the development and evolution of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a multinational aircraft endeavor involving the U.S. and many of its allies. The author provides a historical overview of jet fighter aircraft, discussing the different generations of these planes and their technical characteristics, as well as an outline of emerging international geopolitical and security trends the F-35 may see combat in. By examining the role of defense industries, domestic politics, and governmental oversight of the Joint Strike Fighter in various countries, the author concludes that this aircraft will be deployed in most of these countries to replace their aging jet fighter fleets and combat potential military aggression from China, Russia, and other revisionist international powers.
Author : Aaron Plamondon Publisher : University of British Columbia Press Page : 0 pages File Size : 51,5 Mb Release : 2010 Category : History ISBN : 0774817151
The Politics of Procurement by Aaron Plamondon Pdf
In 1993, Canada's Liberal Party canceled an order to replace the navy's Sea King helicopter. It claimed that the Tory plan was too expensive, but the cancellation itself actually cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. Aaron Plamondon connects this incident to the larger story of the evolution of the defense procurement process in Canada. He reveals that partisan politics, rather than a desire to increase the military's capabilities, have driven the nation's military procurement process. A fascinating saga of the government playing havoc with weapons acquisition, The Politics of Procurement offers an explanation for, and clues for resolving, the underequipped state of Canada's military. Aaron Plamondon teaches Canadian and Military History at the University of Calgary and Mount Royal University. He is also a National Fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business,United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Military Procurement
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business,United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Military Procurement Publisher : Unknown Page : 558 pages File Size : 50,9 Mb Release : 1953 Category : Small business ISBN : LOC:00115208585
Military Procurement by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business,United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Military Procurement Pdf
Visible Costs and Invisible Benefits by Gunnar Eliasson Pdf
This book examines the historic role of professional and demanding military customers in industrial development. Particular emphasis is paid to public procurement of military equipment as a catalyst for innovation; and the civilian commercialization of military technologies (from gunpowder and cannons to submarines, missiles and aircraft) is documented by many case illustrations that show how macro-level productivity advance has been generated. A complementary volume to Advancing Public Procurement as Industrial Policy (2010), which focused on the spillover effects of the Swedish combat aircraft, Gripen, in this book Gunnar Eliasson widens the perspective to cover product development across the Swedish defense industry, with an emphasis on regional economic development and macro-economics, inter alia through the involvement of Saab (aircraft) and Kockums (submarines) in partnership ventures in Australia, Norway and Brazil. The volume is organized into four parts. Part one examines the historical transformation of the Swedish economy over the past three centuries from agriculture and raw materials to an advanced industrial economy. Part two presents detailed case studies to illustrate the spillover effects of procurement projects and military-industrial partnerships. Part three explains the spillover phenomenon theoretically within a dynamic micro- to macro-economic perspective. Particular emphasis is placed on the empirical credibility of model-based economy-wide and dynamic cost-benefit calculations. The book concludes with a section on fostering industrial development through public procurement. The result is a book that will appeal to economists in the industrial economics and management fields; to technical, marketing and purchasing executives in business; and to policy makers in public procurement concerned with innovation and long-run industrial development.
New Weapons, Old Politics by Thomas L. McNaugher Pdf
Americans spend more than $100 billion a year to buy weapons, but no one likes the process that brings these weapons into existence. The problem, McNaugher shows, is that the technical needs of engineers and military planners clash sharply with the political demands of Congress. McNaugher examines weapons procurement since World War II and shows how repeated efforts to improve weapons acquisition have instead increased the harmful intrusion of political pressures into that technical development and procurement process. Today's weapons are more complicated than their predecessors. So are the nation's military forces. The design of new systems and their integration into the force structure demand more care, time, and flexibility. Yet time and flexibility are precisely what political pressures remove from the acquisitions process. In a series of case studies and conceptual discussions, McNaugher tackles concerns at the heart of the debate about acquisition—the slow and heavily bureaucratic approach to development, the preference for ultimate weapons over well-organized and trained forces, and the counterproductive incentives facing the nation's defense firms. He calls for changes that run against the current fashion—less centralization or procurement, less haste in developing new weapons, and greater use of competition as a means of removing the development process from political oversight. Above all, McNaugher shows how the United States tries to buy research and development on the cheap, and how costly this has been. The nation can improve its acquisition process, he concludes, only when it recognizes the need to pay for the full exploration of new technology.
Alan S. Williams,Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies,Breakout Educational Network
Author : Alan S. Williams,Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies,Breakout Educational Network Publisher : Published for Breakout Educational Network and the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University by McGill-Queen's University Press Page : 0 pages File Size : 45,6 Mb Release : 2006 Category : Canada ISBN : 0978169301
Reinventing Canadian Defence Procurement by Alan S. Williams,Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies,Breakout Educational Network Pdf
In a comprehensive study of the defence-procurement environment and the legislative and regulatory framework that governs the process, Alan Williams argues that an inoperable procurement process has led to the near disarmament of the Canadian Forces, the collapse of national defence policy, and a system compromised by bureaucracy and conflicting interests. The only way to fix these problems, says Williams, is to completely reinvent the system of defence procurement, from the roles of various people and organizations to the process itself. Williams also examines questions surrounding efficiency, accountability, and the motivations of politicians and bureaucrats in defence spending. He provides an exhaustive examination of a complex and vital process - a virtual roadmap for a reconstruction that would allow Canada's defence spending to support national security and the Canadian Forces.
Vernon W. Ruttan,Regents Professor in the Department of Applied Economics and in the Department of Economics Vernon W Ruttan,Vernon Wesley Ruttan
Author : Vernon W. Ruttan,Regents Professor in the Department of Applied Economics and in the Department of Economics Vernon W Ruttan,Vernon Wesley Ruttan Publisher : Oxford University Press Page : 232 pages File Size : 42,9 Mb Release : 2006 Category : Business & Economics ISBN : 9780195188042
Is War Necessary for Economic Growth? by Vernon W. Ruttan,Regents Professor in the Department of Applied Economics and in the Department of Economics Vernon W Ruttan,Vernon Wesley Ruttan Pdf
Defense Procurement Policies and Procedures by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Panel on Defense Procurement Procedures Pdf
