Planning Ahead

[Ex-Dragoon]

This is something I think the CF should do more of. For the context I am implying is there should be an office set up in NDHQ that should research equipment for what ever contingency and if money becomes available have documentation on hand to provide our civilian masters all the facts they need so they can ignore us anyways. Does this not make sense? Does it sound unreasonable. Would it not cut down procurement times, if they have factual information given to the government by this said department,  when they decide to give us money or when they decide we need something new?

 

[Armymedic]

There is a department in the army that does exactly that. I forget what their office is called, but they plan for acquisition of equipment in preparation of funds becoming avail.

Part of their work was getting the LUVW acquired, and the new Nyalas as political will and funding became avail.

 

[The Bread Guy]

I know in the federal government department I work in, a lot of our staff work on capital plans to deal with priorizing projects to match available $, and which to move up if mo' $ becomes available.  I'd be hugely surprised if this didn't happen at DND...

 

[Pikepusher]

No reason for concern.  There are individual Directors of Land, Air and Maritime Requirements whose staff keep abreast of identified requirements as well as potential future developments.  Although procurement documentation normally takes well over a year to percolate to final approval, in case of a suddenly-discovered urgent requirement or pot of gold, I have seen the process reduced to a matter of  days.

 

[pbi]

I think this is called Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts (at least that is the part that looks ahead for the Army). I think that Directorate of Land Requirements proposes what to buy. There is also an office of force development for the CF as a whole (LGen Leslie was recently head of it) that looks at the entire CF as a force and develops the direction we should be going as a joint force. The idea is to ensure that the money the Govt gives us is spent on equipment that is needed to meet the shape of the transformed, joint CF, not just buy whatever interests the services or their internal tribes. I'm not sure how well this has worked out so far.

Cheers