Public Accounts committee  At the moment, we are developing the full life-cycle costs for that acquisition. As the government announced last fall, it's entering into discussions with the U.S. government and with Boeing to determine whether we can obtain an interim fighter with the capability we need, in th

Public Accounts committee  You will recall that we had a bit of this discussion when we were talking about inventory. I think it was before Christmas. Previously in our information systems, we had one database for Mr. Finn's area of parts and equipment and inventory, financial records in a different syst

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. We appreciate the opportunity to be here today to discuss the Auditor General's fall 2016 report on operating and maintenance support for military equipment. On behalf of all of us at this table and at National Defence, we'd lik

National Defence committee  I can go really fast. Three projects make up the $39 million. The first is for the maritime helicopter project. Originally, Sikorsky was to buy all of the equipment. Some equipment that is controlled by the U.S. government they will only sell to us, so we get a credit from Sik

National Defence committee  Sure, I'm happy to. The amount in (C) is for three positions. Every time we post somebody abroad, they are housed and hosted by the embassy, so we pay some money to GAC for the costs of that support. In the case of supplementary estimates (C), there's a staff officer position in

National Defence committee  This is an old weapons range that we used near Calgary, which was on first nations land. We have a lot of work to do to clean that up and do it well and quickly. We've been working very closely with the Tsuut'ina First Nation to do that. This is a further installment that will he

National Defence committee  There's no question that you have to do it very carefully, and you do it with highly trained people. Susan can correct me, but I don't believe we've had any injuries to date in the program. I'll ask Susan to come up. This is Susan Chambers, our acting assistant deputy minister

National Defence committee  There is no request for that in the supplementary estimates (C). Next year, we will pay out the amount requested. So the money will come from next year's budget.

National Defence committee  Just on the money question, the money is there for people doing the planning and the options analysis now. That's going ahead under the chief, reporting to the minister. Once the government makes a decision on an operation, there will be money that will come with that through th

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, which item are we on? Is it the transfer for the payroll system?

National Defence committee  I understand.

National Defence committee  The military has its own pay system that is separate from that of the public service. In 2014, the Treasury Board approved that we go ahead with a project to modernize military pay. In 2015, they asked us to move military pay into Phoenix. We looked at that and last June, we asse

National Defence committee  It's always been separate and it will continue to be separate pay, just for the military. However, that's different from the pension system.

National Defence committee  We're approaching this in a couple of phases. The first phase was the transfer to us of up to $400,000. We'll put in place systems and processes. We eventually hope to move that, then, to $1 million and then to $5 million. When we've done this process, 80% of the defence procurem

National Defence committee  Yes. We're going to want to track how well we're doing. The whole goal of this process is to move things faster. We're taking care of the lower-value, more numerous procurements. We want to try to do them quicker.