National Defence committee  In the fall of last year, the contract was amended for six Arctic offshore patrol ships. The contract value is $3.4 billion. That includes more than the ships. It includes all of the training, spare parts and the things we do in all of our major contracts. That is the negotiated

National Defence committee  Thank you. To build on that very quickly, we have just entered the definition, doing the requirements reconciliation and preliminary design. We are operating within the budget envelope that has been established, and we view ourselves as there. Over 30 of the type 26 frigates wil

National Defence committee  We are in fact sending the engines back—that model of engine. We have sufficient spare engines, so we dropped the engines, put the aircraft in for paint, and we're using our spare engines to re-engine the aircraft.

National Defence committee  We're still looking at whether or not we actually take the seven at this point. What we're finding is that the number of spares they've been able to provide to us is more than adequate. Rather than take aircraft apart and go through that cost, we're taking the spares. We may not

National Defence committee  Of the 18, we will return all the engines, again because of the kind of the model or the nature of them. It's the same thing we're doing with ejection seats and ANVIS lighting and targeting pods. We're trying to create exactly the same aircraft, so that pilots, maintainers—everyb

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, to your previous statement, the overall acquisition, as we have said at this committee, is about 360. I just want to be clear that the 90 is about the aircraft and the spares. There are other things we're doing. Some of the soft work, sensors and things like we're doin

National Defence committee  The major contracts we have with SNC-Lavalin on the equipment side speak to the minor warships and auxiliary vessels. We hold the intellectual property, the drawings and everything. It is recompeted periodically. We would do that as a matter of routine, to ensure that in the exec

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much for the question. As you said, I will begin at 50,000 feet and then my colleague can complete my reply. You have to understand that a fighter jet is extraordinarily complex. You have to take into account everything that is in a fighter aircraft, like the sof

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, once again, for the question. I'll begin the answer and my colleague may complete it. There is a certain hierarchy among the trades when it comes to the maintenance of all of our equipment. There are responsible engineers and technologists, that is to say those who do

Public Accounts committee  There is a shortage of maintenance technicians just about everywhere. I am responsible for all of the armed forces equipment, and I can tell you that the problem is the same in the navy and the army. The private sector also needs these technicians, but the biggest problem for us

Public Accounts committee  Again, what we've heard from everybody is that three years is a reasonable time to do it. There are active assembly lines, but you are correct that we are banking on that three-year cycle. These are all people who have other customers, so they're actively building. It's not becau

Public Accounts committee  In spring of 2019, the commercial—or in this case it's a government.... Nevertheless, the formal request for proposals goes out. In 2020, we receive the proposals early on and we go through the bid evaluation process, which will be a major chunk of 2020. We will down-select to a

Public Accounts committee  Just briefly, sir, one of the things we're trying to do...because that technology cycle is not just acquisition. That's in-service and through life. We've just closed off the project for C-130J and we're already opening up for block eight. Part of the complexity we're trying to t

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much for the question, sir. Of course, bringing an aircraft into service is not just about the aircraft itself, and particularly in the Canadian context of the policies that we have and use effectively, such as our industrial technological benefits and other thing

Public Accounts committee  Up in Cold Lake.