Ottawa's sluggish bureaucracy leaves critical gaps in Canadian military ammo supply: AG

[daftandbarmy]

Amateurs talk tactics... something, something, beans and bullets...

Ottawa's sluggish bureaucracy leaves critical gaps in Canadian military ammo supply: AG​

A new report by the auditor general takes shots at both the Department of National Defence and Public Services and Procurement Canada over their handling of the Canadian military's strategic stockpile of ammunition.

Karen Hogan's latest report, tabled on Thursday, concluded that the Defence Department does not manage its ammunition to meet its regular use and strategic stockpile needs and the federal procurement agency was slow in efforts to restock ammunition.

Her analysis found that the strategic stockpile, which the military needs in case of war, did not contain "all the types and quantities of ammunition required" and there were significant gaps.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/defence-ammunition-auditor-procurement-9.7401723

 

[dapaterson]

OAG report: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/o...g-202610-ammunition-canadian-armed-forces.PDF

"We found that National Defence could not demonstrate that it had determined the right types and quantities of ammunition needed for its annual, regular-use supply. We expected that each user group, and the Canadian Armed Forces as a whole, would have had clearly analyzed and documented regular-use ammunition requirements and would have had a complete understanding of the types and quantities of ammunition needed to meet those requirements."

 

[Furniture]

OAG report: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/o...g-202610-ammunition-canadian-armed-forces.PDF

"We found that National Defence could not demonstrate that it had determined the right types and quantities of ammunition needed for its annual, regular-use supply. We expected that each user group, and the Canadian Armed Forces as a whole, would have had clearly analyzed and documented regular-use ammunition requirements and would have had a complete understanding of the types and quantities of ammunition needed to meet those requirements."

I'm guessing the SME's do have numbers, and were told by higher to "adjust" them to meet the budget requirements.

When the budget, and "cost savings" are the name of the game, people play games with requirements.