2015 Status Report on Major Defence Equipment Procurements /

Those in Annex 1, summarized below, are from the list of projects included in the Department of National Defence’s Report on Plans and Priorities 2015/2016, Status Report on Major Crown Projects.3 This list was selected because it is by definition the list of projects that the Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) identify as the most important projects over the [...] There remains an element of subjectivity in their selection for inclusion in the Status Report by DND, as the projects are chosen based on their assessed importance to the Government of Canada, 4 but the inclusion of this list in its entirety removes the element of subjectivity from the author of this report in determining which projects to include, and which to not. [...] In the Project Identification stage, a capability deficiency or gap is identified by one of the many project sponsors in the CAF, of which the Army, RCN and RCAF are the three largest. [...] ONGOING SOURCES OF DELAY An Increased Workload and a Lack of Capacity One significant contributor to the current difficulty facing defence procurement is the mismatch between the procurement workload and the capacity of the defence procurement system.12 Beginning in 1989, DND entered into a decade of cascading budget cuts as the federal government attempted to eliminate the deficit. [...] In 2007, the Treasury Board of Canada also introduced a new Policy on the Management of Projects which took effect December 2009.24 The objectives of this policy are to ensure that the “appropriate systems, processes and controls for managing projects are in place” and also to “support the achievement of project and program outcomes while limiting the risk to stakeholders and taxpayers.”25 This pr