Video—Operating and Maintenance Support for Military Equipment—National Defence

Video Transcript

We identified that National Defence has overpaid for the support of some of its military equipment, and that was because of some of the assumptions that they made when they were planning for the support of that equipment. One assumption they made was about personnel, and we found that they didn’t have as much trained personnel in place as they originally thought they would, so they couldn’t use the equipment as much as expected. Also, National Defence put in place a contract to support the new Hercules aircraft with a cost of about $70 million a year, but in that contract, they expected to fly the aircraft almost 12,000 hours a year when in fact, they, over the last five years, have only flown it about 5,000 hours a year.