National Defence committee  That statement of requirements has not been asked to be reformatted.

National Defence committee  That's right.

National Defence committee  The statement of requirements, as you know, Mr. McKay, is based on looking at the equipment we have, looking forward to how it may be used in the future, and looking at what threats that equipment will face. That statement of requirements is written in such a way that it's blind

National Defence committee  That statement of requirements does raise stealth as a priority.

National Defence committee  The statement of requirements has different weighting given to different portions. When things are listed in there as requirements, they are graded. In other words, when a statement of requirement goes forward to meet what's available to fill that requirement, there are only very

National Defence committee  As a bit of an answer to Mr. Harris's question, I am removed from the air force in this respect, so I will have to confirm that there has been no change to requirements. I know of no ask for that change of requirements, but I can assure that as any statement of requirements is wr

National Defence committee  I think what we may not recognize is that all fighter aircraft come with some radar cross-section. All of them of later technology reduce that cross-section, as does our CF-18 right now.

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, in my 30-some years in uniform, I've seen the numbers as high as 80,000 people and as low as the low 50,000s. We are now at 68,000 in the regular force; 27,000 balanced across full-time and part-time reserves; and about 25,000 to 26,000 in the public service as a defen

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would confine my comments to say that I'm very pleased with the process that's now in place, in that it's a whole-of-government approach. The Canadian armed forces have one of those seven-point steps that's been outlined for the Public Works secretariat,

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, it's a great observation that having been in combat, arguably for over a decade, there is now an entire generation of junior and senior officers, and young and more senior non-commissioned officers, who have learned all kinds of things that would have taken us double t

National Defence committee  The transformation report that General Leslie produced has been an excellent blueprint in many ways for the transformative activities that have been under way over the past year and a half and that are continuing. You've spoken already about the command structure, the regroupin

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Members of the committee, good afternoon. Bonjour. It really is a privilege for me to be here today as the new Chief of the Defence Staff. As I sit here, I am struck that even though we are in slightly different uniforms, we are all serving the great peopl