National Defence committee  Some of the maintenance that is done at a fleet maintenance facility would be shown as an overhead. Costs associated with what National Defence terms “national procurement”, which is actually an amount of money it would spend on fixing the submarine, because the submarine is the

National Defence committee  A typical example for an overhead.... Let's take any of the navy capabilities. An indirect capability would be a fleet diving unit, a unit that would be going along with the ship. Eventually, when we have the JSS, for example, the joint support ship, that would be considered indi

National Defence committee  The personnel numbers are basically as you indicated. On a ship, you would have those who are going to be providing some sort of overhead or indirect activity. That could be determined by the expenditure data we receive, which we could map into something called “the frigate”, whi

National Defence committee  Just to clarify, what we mean by “there is nothing” is that, with the exception of the United States, which is willing to provide that kind of information publicly, not a whole lot of nations have been able to break it down in that fashion.

National Defence committee  Yes. What we mean by indirect is essentially, when you go on a combat mission, you will need these things to go along with it. It's like a force package. Which one is the most lethal aspect? It's the one you would typically use for combat and for doing, for lack of a better wor

National Defence committee  Yes. As you pointed out, the army basically eats up about two-thirds of the reserve force we have. A good chunk of the remaining is the navy, followed by the air force. The reserve forces are essentially treated as basically providing support to the direct elements. If we were t

National Defence committee  It's the way—

National Defence committee  In terms of the tooth-to-tail ratio, you have to understand that people sometimes use the analogy of an arrow. Sometimes you need bigger support in the back in order to make sure that your fighting edge is quite capable. You need to have a certain amount of overhead and indirect