National Defence was forced to throw over six years’ worth of research and planning for its desperately needed search and rescue plane out the window when the Harper government elected to take a different procurement approach.
A briefing prepared for the former associate defence minister, Kerry-Lynne Findlay, spells out in detail how the project, which has been grinding its way through the defence bureaucracy since 2004, was being further sidelined.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/new-procurement-model-forces-dnd-to-ditch-more-than-six-years-of-work/article17730121/?cmpid=rss1&click=dlvr.it
The program, first announced by Paul Martin’s Liberals in 2004, is meant to replace two different fleets of aircraft – one of them almost 50-years-old – with a single modern formation of possibly 15 planes.
The original pricetag – laid out a decade ago – was $1.4-billion.
Despite pledges since 2008 to make the purchase the department’s “top priority,” defence and public works officials could not say last week when a tender will be issued.
The most recent Conservative budget moved over $3.1-billion of capital spending on the military off into future years and it’s unclear whether the rescue plane is among those affected.
A briefing prepared for the former associate defence minister, Kerry-Lynne Findlay, spells out in detail how the project, which has been grinding its way through the defence bureaucracy since 2004, was being further sidelined.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/new-procurement-model-forces-dnd-to-ditch-more-than-six-years-of-work/article17730121/?cmpid=rss1&click=dlvr.it
The program, first announced by Paul Martin’s Liberals in 2004, is meant to replace two different fleets of aircraft – one of them almost 50-years-old – with a single modern formation of possibly 15 planes.
The original pricetag – laid out a decade ago – was $1.4-billion.
Despite pledges since 2008 to make the purchase the department’s “top priority,” defence and public works officials could not say last week when a tender will be issued.
The most recent Conservative budget moved over $3.1-billion of capital spending on the military off into future years and it’s unclear whether the rescue plane is among those affected.
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