National Defence committee  My only comment is not about these circumstances, but in the force development, force planning, how do you get what you think you need? There's a tension that goes back and forth. As you are developing requirements and looking at the best ways to answer those, what's the new ide

National Defence committee  The other reason we want to be very careful about any kind of unique capabilities that we would decide on is that there are operational issues. Operational commanders will come, or regulations or compliance will come, and say, “We need to do it this way.” We want to minimize that

National Defence committee  I do not know the answer on the fixed-wing minimum speed. It would really be an issue the chief of the air staff or the air force would be able to answer in terms of safety issues with regard to exiting the aircraft, I'm assuming. There are probably issues related to best speed f

National Defence committee  That's really an operational kind of technique. I think the air force would be best positioned, and we'll see what we can do.

National Defence committee  For example, in the challenge function, there are a set of assumptions at the front of any SOR, saying that these are the assumptions we use: we're going to have this many crew in an aircraft, we're going to have it based here, these are the response times, and so on. These can a

National Defence committee  Good morning. My duties on behalf of the vice-chief are primarily threefold. I manage the defence services program, oversee performance management and government reporting for DND, and coordinate issues with respect to strategic capabilities and resources between DND and other in