DND can’t allow a quarter-trillion-dollar program to proceed unchallenged
Both the U.S. Department of Defense, and DND’s costing manual utilize a ratio of long-term support costs to acquisition costs of 2:7. Applying this ratio to the PBO’s acquisition costs, the projected life-cycle costs for the CSC will be $286-billion.
The Naval Association of Canada (NAC) just released a paper commenting on the recent report by the Office of the Parliamentary Budgetary Officer (PBO) regarding the Canadian Surface Combatants (CSC). Unfortunately, in its attempt to provide context and underscore the complexity of the program it mad...
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