I call the committee to order.
Thank you all for being here this morning, as we continue our study of the procurement and associated processes to do with the Department of National Defence.
Today we have two sessions, one from nine to ten, and then one from ten to eleven. In the first session we'd like to welcome Douglas Bland, the chair of the defence management studies program, School of Policy Studies at Queen's University, and Alan Williams, former Assistant Deputy Minister (Materiel) of the Department of National Defence. We have these two gentlemen from nine to ten, and from ten to eleven we have the Auditor General.
As usual, we turn the floor over to the witnesses to make brief statements, and then open it to a round of questions.
Mr. Bland, I understand you're going to start. Go ahead, sir.