National Defence committee  They have in a number of cases more than ours, but hours in a fighter are not necessarily the best measure of the stress on the structure. How much has been low-flying? How much was combat air support? We're quite comfortable, as the minister said, with the work done at L3 in Mon

National Defence committee  On the east coast, we're in discussion with the yard. It's not the government's to entirely solve...but we are looking at the six AOPS from a military requirement capability. On some of the other things, as we move to the selection of the surface combatant design this fall, that

National Defence committee  Sir, quickly, the tail numbers have not specifically been identified. They will be negotiated for the very reason that you say: that they still have hours on them. We don't want to take aircraft at the very end of their service life. These will be flyable assets that are in servi

National Defence committee  There could be a delay, absolutely, if they want to hold on to all the aircraft. Like us, a certain portion of their fleet is always undergoing heavy maintenance. By virtue of aircraft that they are going to dispose of, they're going to cease doing that and be parking some aircra

National Defence committee  As the minister indicated, we don't have the final agreement with Australia. We have gone back and forth with an increased amount of certainty. When the U.S. government approves the third party transfer, that will enable us to finalize it all. We have a preliminary understanding

National Defence committee  As the deputy indicated, it really is procurement, I'd say, across the town, as you appreciate, in defence. For the army, navy, and air force, it's how they can advance things in the context of option analysis within the materiel group so that the project managers, the procuremen

National Defence committee  Not delivering internally or not delivering by suppliers.... On not delivering internally, within my span of control, we have very detailed performance measures that we bring to our program management board. I have over 300 projects and over 10,000 contracts under management. We

National Defence committee  On future fighters, we have completed the source list, a bit of a pre-qualification. That's now done and in place. We reduced it to the five key suppliers, but we engaged with nations. These will come in different fashions. As early as next week, again with our colleagues at Publ

National Defence committee  On the one hand, we are working to expedite the acquisition of—

National Defence committee  I would just add that certainly the profit levels on CSC have not been established. “Profit on profit” is something we watch very carefully for. I think it's important to separate, though, profit on profit from payments that are made to manage subcontractors, which is fairly typi

National Defence committee  The first Arctic offshore patrol ship will be delivered into the navy next year. It will start to require some maintenance at that point, and every nine months thereafter will be a follow-on ship. The need to start providing maintenance is merging. At this point we've laid out a

National Defence committee  To answer your specific question, for the contract it's performance of the contract, so how we ensure there is no impact on the search and rescue capability is through the performance measures and the application of the contract and what is delivered there. When it comes to cont

National Defence committee  At this point, we have gone and inspected them. It is something we looked at in our aircraft as well. Very few, if any, will require replacement. We have had a long-term relationship with the Australians, where we have developed a fatigue life management plan over decades of wor

National Defence committee  From an Australian perspective, they're in combat-ready status today, so they continue to operate those aircraft. We're in discussion with them about which of the aircraft have the most life remaining. They will be like all of our aircraft. They will continuously be cycled throug

National Defence committee  We have the information, so we can absolutely take that away and provide the information from our inspection on the cost piece.