Module 4.1 Defence Procurement
(Development still in progress)
Government of Canada procurement structure and strategies to manage it
Introduction
A few paragraphs about the subject…
Learning objectives
- • Apply the concept of policy development
- • Explain the link between policy and politics
- • Explain military roles in defence procurement
Required reading (372)
This is the stuff students must read; not more than an hour or two for the 372 class
Defence Procurement (from the outside in) - this is what the government tells prospective contractors about how to respond to requests for proposals
Procurement of Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) - this is a specific example of public information about a procurement project
Korda, M. (2020) “Canada is Buying a Fleet of Armed Drones. We Should All be Worried,” Passage, 19 Aug. - this is a public response to the policy implied by the procurement
Other links and references (374)
- • Kasurak (2008) neither fools nor knaves (most of the time) but responding to signals good and bad…
- • Liston-Heyes (1995) managing informational asymmetry [link to DLR/DAR/DNR roles]
- • Markowski et al (2009) smaller countries don’t face the same issues as US, UK, FR, GE
- • Sen (1984) military origins of industrialization and trade rivalry
- • Martin and Hartley (1995) defence spending offset strategies…limitations.
- • Stone and Solomon in Juneau (2019) political economy of defence
- • Perry in Juneau (2019) Canadian defence budgeting
- • Stone (2020) defence procurement offsets and their economic value in Canada
Defence industry shifts
- • Hartley (1996) Defence industry adjustments after the Cold War
- • De Fraja and Hartley (1996) the UK strategy of competition to increase value for money in defence procurement
- • Heuninckx (2008) Euro collaboration
- • Mishra (2014) illustrates the dilemma even a very large state like India faces
- • Solomon and Penney (2019) Canadian defence industrial base
- • Stone and Solomon (2005) defence policy, spending and the industrial base in Canada since the Second World War; macroeconomic realities and special microeconomic conditions
Canada US relations and defence technology
- • Hennessy (2006) Canada-US relationship neither seamless nor a sure thing after ww2
- • Fergusson (2002) – Canada-US aerospace cooperation
- • Fergusson (2014) – economic benefits and offsets
- • Hartley (2018) profitability of non-competitive defence contracts in the UK
- • Miller (2004) – dramatic changes, Canada not up to US blandishments?
- • Mason (2005) – less than meets the eye when defence enthusiasts cry the sky is falling
Presentations
Lecture 1
A short description of what is included
Link to the slides
Lecture 2
A short description of what is included
Link to the slides
Seminar (for POE374, optional for POE372)
Key question in the seminar
