The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) released a report on 1 June 2017 called “The Cost of Canada’s Surface Combatants.” The PBO report reviews the costs of the Canadian Surface Combatant […]
There was an interesting article in The Globe and Mail last week that talks about Chantier Davie Shipyard in Quebec. The article is extremely unflattering. It describes how Davie is […]
16 March 2017. Rosborough Boats of Halifax has been building boats in Nova Scotia since 1955. Now the company has been awarded a contract that will see them build 12 […]
30 Jan 2017. BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENCE: DO WE NEED IT AT SEA IN THE CANADIAN SURFACE COMBATTANT? There has been a fair amount of controversy surrounding whether or not the […]
12 Sept. 2016. Over the summer, Chantier Davie Shipyard invited suppliers to present disaster-relief equipment available for the ship. Refueling and resupply of warships at sea are the main roles […]
Energy Use and Conservation in the Marine Sector Environmentalists are making a lot of noise these days about getting off oil in the next two to three decades. This might […]
There’s been increasing interest in autonomous service vehicles (ASV) and the USN Sea Hunter appears to be the most advanced and complex of the lot. It is claimed this “robotic […]
Tom Ring, a former senior procurement official, has written a major paper on the National Shipbuilding Strategy. He provides never before revealed elements of the programme’s background with an intriguing […]
Yesterday there were numerous reports (here, here and here) of the Canadian government potentially adopting a new approach to the CSC project that would require potential warship designers and combat […]
Another input to seemingly endless debate on the need to re-rationalize Canada’s shipbuilding industry. How many times do we have to be reminded that shipbuilding in Canada is one of […]
In the most recent Canadian Military Journal David Rudd has provided an insightful analysis of the Canadian Surface Combatants’ design possibilities. His central argument is that the Military Off The […]
Professor Rob Huebert’s new essay on the state and likely future of the RCN’s fleet is well worth reading. It is sure to generate some criticism. As we have said […]
The discussion in this BLOG on the NSPS has tended towards several themes. First, a belief that the Canadian Navy is proposing a fleet that is based on Cold War […]
The two previous posts provide an interesting introduction to the Canadian Surface Combatant capability issue. Where Hansen suggests the survivability of medium-sized warships against modern weapon systems is questionable, the […]
An article published by David Publiese in the Ottawa Citizen on December 3rd (with the same title as this one and available on his Defence Watch website here) asks a […]
On 30 November 2015, the federal department Public Services and Procurement issued a statement (http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1022609) that the government of Canada had “determined that proceeding with Project Resolve is the most […]
“Fleet Cost Problems? For a Start, Stop Calling Cruisers Either Destroyers or Frigates.” 8 December 2015 In his post “Fleet Cost Problems?” Ken Hansen suggests we stop calling our future […]
The interview with Vice-Admiral Mark Norman on December 2nd by CBC’s James Cudmore (‘Warship Costs could rise to $30b’) is a very brave ‘mea culpa’ on behalf of the navy. […]
There has been much written about how defence inflation has eroded the budget allocated to the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS).1 As time passes, the argument goes, the NSPS budget […]
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