National Defence committee  There is an air defence UOR under way for PAXM. Think of an anti-tank capability, but it's more than that. There are a couple that might meet your description.

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, in these cases, all three of the urgent operational requirements that are under way right now to support Operation Reassurance are competitive.

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, what we're aiming to do is to bring in the service-proven capabilities that our allies already have in service.

National Defence committee  The third one is the PAXM UOR which is a.... I can't remember what the acronym stands for, Mr. Chair, but I can get that for you. Think of it as an anti-tank weapon, but it has more applications than just the tanks.

National Defence committee  I can start, Mr. Chair. As Mr. Page has pointed out in the past, it starts with the definition of the requirements. My organization and the materiel group at National Defence don't develop the requirements. That's done by the services—the army, air force, navy, special operati

National Defence committee  It is true that the announcement of the purchase was made earlier in the year. Of course, the information that goes into the models that develop the cost estimates need a source: cost per flying hour, fuel consumption rates and those sorts of considerations. This is in addition t

National Defence committee  I have not read the report personally.

National Defence committee  I'm afraid I don't follow the question.

National Defence committee  I think I recall the work on the response to the Order Paper question. If I recall correctly—and please correct me if I'm wrong—there was a time element to it. To be clear, the model that was developed for doing the life-cycle cost estimate for the F-35 was actually put together

National Defence committee  When the acquisition of the F-35s was announced, we disclosed the forecast of through-life costs for the capability, which of course includes the in-service support costs. The information used by the subject matter experts who do these sorts of cost estimates came from a variety

National Defence committee  There are opportunities to have timely conversations with our allies about future requirements that will enable Canadian industry to participate. An example right now would be the participation of Canadian industry in F-35 production, which has been going on now for quite some ti

National Defence committee  Specifically for the M795 variant of the artillery ammunition that I think the committee is now familiar with, we have put in place a contract to do the detailed design work required for the companies to be able to establish that manufacturing capacity in Canada. That work is und

National Defence committee  Given the initial information that we were provided by industry, from the time the contracts are in place to establishing the production capacity, they're estimating in the order of three years.

National Defence committee  I'll clarify. It's a bit of an iterative process. In the beginning, we go to industry and we ask for a general concept of what will be required. Once we have a sense of what that looks like, we put in place a contract for them to do the detailed engineering work. That's the con

National Defence committee  We have contracts in place right now for an older variant of artillery ammunition, referred to as the M107. We've done work to put in place incremental or additional production capacity at one of the associated companies. In the case of the M795, there was no domestic capacity f