Defence Procurement and Canadian Foreign Policy

Collins, Jeffrey F.

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“…That such alignment did not exist in Canadian Type 26 case is demonstrated by comparing the RCN's service doctrine-which defines its expected force structure-and the government defence white papers stating the administration's defence policy. Throughout the study period, the RCN considered itself as an instrument of Canadian collective defence and a key contributor to NATO's antisubmarine warfare capability-the RCN's traditional roles from the First World War until the end of the Cold War-but its relative importance for Canadian national security declined in the eyes of the government in the post-Cold War period (Collins, 2021).…”

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The politics of military procurement: the F-35 purchasing process in Canada and Australia Compared

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Large-scale military platform procurement is an essential but understudied component of the policy studies of megaprojects. Procurement decisions in this area, from ships to aircraft, are examples of a specific type of often very expensive purchases which feature complex multi-actor and multiyear processes characterized by high degrees of conflict between actors over purchases and planning horizons. This study of military procurement efforts of this type demonstrates the importance of maintaining policy 'alignment' between governments and service providers for successful megaproject procurement to occur and suggests several strategies for accomplishing this that can be applied to similar large-scale but nondefense-related projects, ranging from hydroelectric dams to high-speed railway development.

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“…In the case where just one of these variables is successful, we have intermediate situations where procurement can be either much delayed or fail all together. In the case of implementation process failure, as Collins (2019Collins ( , 2021 suggested, purchases will either be enormously delayed or never delivered. 1 Finally, the fourth quadrant encapsulates the 'nonstarter' option, possibly embodied by the Canadian CADRE fiasco where both implementation and formulation-and financing-never came together and the project was scrapped in its entirety.…”

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Conclusion: Lessons from Military Procurement for Procurement Studies

Migone

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2023

Procurement and Politics

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Procurement is a hugely important but understudied aspect of public policy-making, broaching the borders between it and cognate fields such as public administration and, in the case of defence procurement between public policy studies writ large and areas such as war and defence studies. The military field, however, provides an excellent set of empirical cases for the examination of some of the most problematic types of procurement—those involving large, multi-year purchases, such as the construction of megaprojects like hydroelectric dams and nuclear power stations, which share the same characteristics as do the acquisition of large complex weapon systems like warships and aircraft. This book represents an effort to bring together the insights of different fields from public management to defence studies in order to shed light on the background of some of the largest procurement projects in Canadian and Australian history, and also to advance thinking and research on the subject of procurement more generally.

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Introduction: Procurement and Politics—The Defence Policy Consensus or Aligning Strategy and Policy Is Necessary But Not Automatic

Migone

Howlett²,

Howlett

2023

Procurement and Politics

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Large-scale military platform procurement is an essential but understudied component in policy and administrative studies. Procurement decisions in this area, which include major platforms and systems such as ships and aircraft, are very expensive and feature complex multi-actor and multi-year processes which can be highly conflictual. The extant administrative literature on the subject is of limited help: on the one hand, most procurement studies in public administration and public management focus on smaller, short-term, more routinized and less conflictual purchases. On the other hand, studies centred on military acquisitions tend to treat each major purchase as idiosyncratic. Hence, military procurement provides an excellent source of case studies to expand our knowledge and understanding of larger and more complex types of procurement processes. It allows us to draw lessons about successes and failures that will be relevant to similar expensive and large-scale purchases, such as railways, hydroelectric dams, highways and port development, while also drawing out the similarities and lessons for future defence purchases.

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Defence Procurement and Canadian Foreign Policy

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

The politics of military procurement: the F-35 purchasing process in Canada and Australia Compared

The politics of military procurement: the F-35 purchasing process in Canada and Australia Compared

Conclusion: Lessons from Military Procurement for Procurement Studies

Introduction: Procurement and Politics—The Defence Policy Consensus or Aligning Strategy and Policy Is Necessary But Not Automatic

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