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Section 2: Analysis of Program Activities by Strategic Outcome

Introduction

The Department’s Program Activity Architecture (PAA), described in Section 1, supports the Government of Canada (GoC) outcomes of sustaining Canada’s economy, ensuring safe and secure communities and contributing to a safe and secure world. Further details on Defence’s role in achieving the GoC outcomes can be found in Treasury Board Secretariat’s annual report on Canada’s Performance. The purpose of this section is to provide detailed information on the National Defence program activities that will contribute to the achievement of the GoC outcomes.

Defence identified three Strategic Outcomes to fulfill the Defence mission and achieve results for Canadians. These are:

• Canadians’ confidence that DND and the CF have relevant and credible capacity to meet defence and security commitments;
• success in assigned missions in contributing to domestic and international peace, security and stability; and
• good governance, Canadian identity and influence in a global community.

Three Program Activities were identified to align to these strategic outcomes. These form the core of this report.

• Generate and Sustain Relevant, Responsive, Effective, Combat-Capable, Integrated Forces;
• Conduct Operations; and
• Contribute to the Canadian Government, Society and the International Community in Accordance with Canadian Interests and Values.

Generate and Sustain Relevant, Responsive, Effective, Combat-Capable, Integrated Forces

Strategic Outcome: Canadians’ confidence that DND and the CF have relevant and credible capacity to meet defence and security commitments.

Program Activity: Generate and Sustain Relevant, Responsive and Effective Combat-Capable Integrated Forces — Total Spending Net of Revenues

The focus of the first program activity is to measure the ability of Defence’s high-readiness forces to meet defence and security commitments. Its scope encompasses all aspects from creating a responsive organizational structure, recruiting, equipping forces, and training forces for operations. It supports the corporate priority to transform and modernize the CF.

This program activity comprises four program sub-activities that will sustain the anticipated operational tempo for both planned and contingency operations at appropriate readiness levels and generate surge forces to meet unexpected demands. The four program sub-activities supporting the “Generate and Sustain Relevant, Responsive, Effective Combat-Capable, Integrated Forces” are described below.

• Generate and Sustain Integrated, Operational Forces Capable of Maritime Effects
• Generate and Sustain Integrated, Operational Forces Capable of Land Effects
• Generate and Sustain Integrated, Operational Forces Capable of Aerospace Effects
• Generate and Sustain Joint, National, Unified and Special Operations Forces

Generate and Sustain Integrated, Operational Forces Capable of Maritime Effects

The navy will continue to advance the development and implementation of maritime security capabilities.

It will continue to deliver on currently assigned capabilities, missions and tasks in accordance with the Defence Plan. Fleet deployments, sustainment and joint interagency interoperability will be primary objectives in the execution of the plan.

An ageing fleet of warships pose significant challenges for generating and sustaining combat-capable integrated naval forces, but the first steps have already been taken in reshaping the navy, not only to meet evolving defence and maritime security challenges in a highly uncertain future, but also to provide Canada with a navy capable of operating off the East and West coasts as well as in the Arctic, an area of increasing importance.

Starting in 2012 the first Joint Support Ship (JSS) will be delivered as a replacement to the Protecteur class replenishment vessels. Furthermore, as the Halifax class ships near their mid-life in the next few years, work is being advanced to ensure that the surface fleet remains effective and combat capable until it is eventually replaced.

Generate and Sustain Integrated, Operational Forces Capable of Land Effects

Land Force Command (LFC)’s mission is to generate and maintain combat capable, multi-purpose land forces to meet Canada’s defence objectives. The Army Strategy: Advancing with Purpose remains the authoritative reference for all LFC strategic plans. The direction included in the Army Strategy and the Five Year Plan, the Strategic Operations and Resource Direction (SORD) will provide the framework for strategic decision-making upon which the demands of each of the army’s lines of operations are to be rationalized.

The LFC Programme will ensure disciplined training and the validation of soldiers for domestic and international operations. Additionally, LFC will adhere to the army Managed Readiness Plan (MRP), which will continue to be refined as lessons are learned and efficiencies revealed, to ensure predictability of employment and maximum efficiency in the conduct of training, personnel employment, and resource expenditure.

The 5K/3K Force Expansion Program, announced in Budget 2005, will continue with the arrival of significant numbers of new soldiers to reinforce the field force as early as fiscal year

2007–2008. Budget 2006 announced the plan to accelerate the recruitment of 13,000 Regular Force and 10,000 Reserve Force ⁴. The challenge for the Chief of Land Staff (CLS) will be to train and validate its allocation of this increase.

Treasury Board further approved on June 22, 2006, two major projects that will contribute to CLS transformation. The Medium Support Vehicle System project will modernize the aging Medium Logistics Vehicle Wheeled fleet. It will provide the platform for embedded unit logistics; provide mobile support facilities, such as field kitchens, workshops and medical facilities; and effect re-supply operations to deliver reinforcements and supplies. The Medium-to-Heavy-Lift Helicopter project will provide safe and effective movement of CF troops and equipment in hostile environments, both domestically and internationally and in support of land forces and special operations forces.

Sustainability will be achieved by maintaining the balance between the elements of the institutional army (command and control, field forces, training and support). Although past investments in infrastructure, garrison support, environmental oversight and other factors have resulted in improvements, the resources necessary to sustain both the field force and the institutional army have increased. As a result, a sizeable gap remains, which will require difficult choices.

During this fiscal year, the LFC will maintain a high tempo of force generation and operational employment that may need to be sustained indefinitely. At the same time, the army will pursue and conform to CF Transformation while integrating and remaining sustainable. Achieving and maintaining a balance between operations, transformation and sustainment will not be easy, however, it is critical to the success of CF Transformation. Several years of transformational activities have enhanced LFC’s ability to simultaneously expand the army and generate forces for operations.

Generate and Sustain Integrated, Operational Forces Capable of Aerospace Effects

The air force will continue to participate in operations contributing to the defence of Canada and North America and the promotion of security and Canadian values around the world. The air force is fully integrated with other components of the CF, NATO and NORAD, and works in combination with allied and coalition forces, or with partners in Canadian government organizations and other agencies. The air force is reinvesting in overall fleet management, resulting in an improvement in support of existing fleets. Resolutions to the significant challenges associated with the air mobility fleet are being championed this year. The air force will ensure that all airmen and airwomen are trained, educated, equipped, fully engaged and prepared to meet the demands of the future, while continuing to generate forces for domestic operations in support of Canada Command and NORAD.

Over the next 15 years, the air force will leverage new technologies to deal with asymmetric threats and will increasingly use space-based technology, such as satellites for beyond-line-of-sight communications and domain awareness. High priority will be given to the posturing of the air force to receive and operate the new strategic and tactical airlift capabilities, Fixed Wing Search and Rescue capabilities, and Medium to Heavy Lift Helicopters. The air force will work closely with the project management staff to mitigate process challenges to enable the rapid integration of these new capabilities into CF operations.

The Canadian Forces Aerospace Warfare Centre (CFAWC), established to enable rapid capability development, will serve as the engine of air force transformation and will work closely with other centres of excellence to develop aerospace power doctrine, explore new concepts and make best use of lessons learned from CF deployed forces to improve the effective evolution of aerospace power.

Significant challenges remain with regard to equipment and personnel. By the end of this fiscal year, it is expected that the air force will be strengthened and reinvigorated with newly trained personnel, new capabilities and a more robust CFAWC.

Additional information on these and other major projects can be found at: http://www.vcds.forces.ca/dgsp/00native/rep-pub/ddm/rpp/rpp06-07/MCP-eng.pdf

Generate and Sustain Joint, National, Unified and Special Operations Forces

Key initiatives under this program sub-activity will include the following major transformation initiatives already underway in Defence. The CF will:

• continue to develop Canada Command (Canada COM) and the Joint Task Forces;
• continue to develop the Canadian Expeditionary Force Command (CEFCOM);
• continue to develop the Canadian Operational Support Command (CANOSCOM);
• develop the capability to deploy joint formations of a Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM), a Rapid Reaction Force, and mission-specific task forces; and
• develop an Integrated Managed Readiness System to enhance Defence’s planning ability to generate and deploy integrated forces.

Canada Command (Canada COM)

Canada COM will ensure Defence is prepared to do the following:

• protect Canada by providing unity of command, and command and control, over all military efforts related to the defence of Canada within the Canada Com Area of Operational Responsibility, such as Aid of the Civil Power, assistance to federal and provincial law enforcement agencies, and counter-terrorism support, as requested or directed; and
• defend North America in co-operation with US NORTHCOM and NORAD.

Canadian Expeditionary Force Command (CEFCOM)

One of the CF’s roles is to contribute to international peace and security. CEFCOM's contribution to this role is the conduct of fully integrated global operations, across the spectrum from humanitarian assistance to combat, in concert with national and international partners to achieve timely and decisive effects in support of Canada’s national interests.

CEFCOM's focus is on making a difference wherever it employs Canadian Forces personnel. As such, it is evolving its operational-level capabilities to command international operations involving up to 5,000 deployed military personnel.

Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM)

With respect to special operations capabilities, the CF will do the following:

• establish the Canadian Special Operations Regiment (Cdn Spec Ops Regt)) as a new joint unit within the CF. The Cdn Spec Ops Regt will be a high-readiness, agile and robust special operations force capable of supporting and conducting a broad range of missions at home and abroad. Members of this unit will be recruited from across the Canadian Forces and will be composed of personnel from the maritime, land and air forces, both regular and reserve. As a part of CANSOFCOM, the unit will be capable of generating direct action company groups and special forces elements, as well as mission specific and Rapid Reaction Forces. At end-state, the unit will be capable of generating a special operations task force headquarters for limited periods. The regiment will reach initial operational capability (IOC) by August 2006 with full operational capability (FOC) expected in fiscal year 2009–2010. Personnel posted to Cdn Spec Ops Regt will be screened and selected to meet the demanding needs of a special operations unit. As a high-readiness force, the Cdn Spec Ops Regt will be resourced at a high level of priority;
• enlarge Joint Task Force 2 (JTF2) to enhance its ability to carry out missions at home and abroad, either alone or with other elements of CANSOFCOM;
• reassign 427 Tactical Helicopter Squadron to provide dedicated and high readiness specialised aviation capabilities in support of CANSOFCOM’s special operations activities. Residual command responsibilities will remain with 1 Canadian Air Division and any unused capacity of 427 Squadron may be tasked in support of Canada COM;
• expand the Joint Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence Company to better protect Canadians at home as well as CF units deployed on domestic and international operations; and
• improve special operations training capabilities.

Canadian Operational Support Command (CANOSCOM)

CANOSCOM serves as the link between strategic support provided from Canada and the Environmental Chiefs of Staff-specific support provided to the component command of a CF task force in line with their mission specific requirements. Its creation enables the projection of national support across a single line of communication into, and within, a given theatre of operations whether domestic or international.

In addition to the coordination of force generation of integrated Operational Support Component Command/Groups, CANOSCOM is also responsible for the non-deployable support function, critical to routine support to operations. Drawing on its available national support capabilities or from support resources held by Environmental Chiefs of Staff/Senior Management, CANOSCOM provides routine support to CF contingency operations. Composite in nature, CANOSCOM comprises the full range of command support/communication and information system, health services, general support military engineering, logistics, land equipment maintenance support, and military police.

Integrated Managed Readiness System

Defence will continue to develop a CF integrated managed readiness system to enhance the Department’s ability to generate and deploy integrated forces. The navy, the army and the air force will each contribute to the CF’s readiness and sustainment efforts through the following:

1. The Navy’s Readiness and Sustainment (R&S) Policy
   
   The navy will generate force elements consisting of trained personnel with the right equipment to sustain the anticipated operational tempo for both planned and contingency operations. Generating forces remains very challenging. The aim for fiscal year 2006–2007 will be to maintain high and standard-readiness units with 90% and 70% respectively of their training requirements completed.
   
   The navy’s sustainment focus will be on operational capabilities. It will pay particular attention to generating the Composite Contingency Task Group⁵ , advancing the operational readiness of submarine capability and conducting maritime domestic surveillance. The navy will maintain its ability to provide a highly skilled team dedicated to maintaining balanced, combat-capable and multi-role maritime forces.
2. The Army Managed Readiness Plan (MRP)
   
   The army MRP has been developed to allow predictability of employment for its soldiers, and to maximize the efficiency with which Defence conducts training, employs personnel and expands resources. It will ensure a sustainable generation of land forces for domestic and expeditionary operations.
   
   The army operational staff in Director Land Force Readiness will monitor progress continuously against the MRP. In addition, Director Land Strategic Planning will report on the ongoing progress of the army MRP to the VCDS Strategic Performance Measurement Framework, for regular Defence Management Committee (DMC) briefings. The army MRP will form an integral part of the CF Integrated Managed Readiness System.
   
   
3. The Army Reserve
   
   The army reserve will successfully sustain the growth achieved under Land Force Reserve Restructure (LFRR) Phase II and continue to focus on change and growth. With the ongoing development of new and enhanced capabilities and the strengthening of more traditional elements, the army reserve will continue to expand its operational role and importance. The continued integration of the army reserve into the MRP will reinforce the primacy of operations. Army reserve units will continue to provide a solid link to their communities. For additional information on the Reserve Force, see Section 3.
   
   
4. The Air Expeditionary Force
   
   The air force is transforming into an expeditionary air force to respond to the force employment requirements of commanders Canada COM, CEFCOM, CANSOFCOM and CANOSCOM. The Combined Forces Air Component Command (CFACC) will force generate Air Expeditionary Units consisting of a command and control element; Tactical Self-Sufficient Units (TSSUs) delivering air power; a Mission Support Squadron delivering integral and close support and an Operational Support Squadron delivering operational oversight and force protection.
   
   The CFACC will ensure sustainable generation of TSSUs across each operational aircraft fleet in support of domestic and expeditionary operations.
   
   

Support Capability

Defence requires the necessary support capability to successfully accomplish the Program Activity — “Generate and Sustain Relevant, Responsive, Effective and Combat-Capable Integrated Forces” described above.

The current security environment calls for professional, highly trained armed forces capable of using new technologies effectively in joint, interagency and multinational operations. New technologies offer fast, flexible solutions to such operational problems as delivering force precisely in a war zone or monitoring the flow of refugees in a humanitarian crisis. The CF have embraced these new technologies, and will continue to invest in training and equipping Regular and Reserve personnel to ensure they remain among the best trained, technologically adept sailors, soldiers and air force personnel in the world. DND will also ensure that civilian personnel remain motivated, qualified and professional people capable of meeting Defence’s transformation needs.

In fiscal year 2006–2007, Defence will accomplish this through a number of projects and initiatives that will do the following:

1. develop and sustain an effective, professional Defence Team;
2. modernize and transform the CF through capital acquisitions; and
3. optimize resource utilization.

a.     Develop and Sustain an Effective Professional Defence Team

1. Human Resources: Military
   
   Under transformation, the CF Personnel System and the organization leading personnel management will need to attain greater operational focus and, in particular, functional re-alignment and cohesion with respect to Human Resources (HR) issues. Over the past couple of years, much effort has been placed in re-defining and re-aligning the CF Personnel System through the Human Resource System Transformation (HRST) initiative to support CF transformation. Measures to address a growing backlog in HR policy development, a new Individual Training and Education (IT&E) management framework and better management and administration of non-environmental military occupations training will be put in place.
   
   Recruitment and Retention
   
   In fiscal year 2006–2007, the CF will continue to face challenges in recruiting that may ultimately affect their capacity to meet overall recruiting and force expansion objectives to grow the Regular Force by an additional 13,000 and the Reserve Force by 10,000.
   
   Despite numerous recruiting and retention efforts, a number of military occupations remain critically short of personnel. These include professional occupations such as: doctors and pharmacists, and operator occupations such as: naval electronics technicians, signal operators, fire control systems technicians, airborne electronic sensor operators, naval weapons technicians and intelligence operators. Indications are that intake estimates will not be sufficient to recover to the preferred manning level within two years. Recruiting and retention of some of these military occupations will remain problematic in the foreseeable future for a variety of reasons, such as elevated academic standards; high medical standards; competition from the private sector; and shortages of certain skill sets in Canadian society.
   
   The CF are standardizing applicant processing procedures across Canada and are implementing e-recruiting, which is also expected to further reduce wait times by improving the accuracy of applicant information. The CF also put in place numerous subsidized and direct entry plans.
   
   The following specific activities are in progress or are planned for fiscal year 2006–2007.
   
   
   • Recruitment
     
     National Defence will continue to connect with Canadians through a broad range of coordinated, community-based activities to attract and enrol quality recruits. The aim is to make Canadians aware of the unique opportunities, benefits, challenges and rewards of CF careers. To effectively compete for the best people during a period of force expansion, the CF have adopted a robust and cohesive recruiting strategy. A comprehensive National Recruiting Campaign, supported by a National Recruiting Attraction Plan, new advertisements, and appropriate advertising funding is aimed at increasing the number of applicants from which to select suitable candidates. Performance measures are being developed, and results against these measures are expected by 2007.
     
     National Defence will continue to strengthen its CF recruiting infrastructure.
     
     
     • National Defence will improve the quality of recruiting staff through enhanced selection and training measures, including the establishment of a permanent Recruiting Training Centre in 2007.
     • National Defence will increase the number of personnel assigned to recruiting centres and will put in place a monitoring system that allows Defence to determine accurate numbers of applicants, their dispositions, and the time for processing. With this information, Defence will act to reduce unnecessary withdrawals and delays. Defence will aim to have this in place in 2007.
     • National Defence will continue to collect information on the criteria and procedures to validate that Defence selection tools are predicting candidate suitability.
     National Defence will continue to focus on attracting a diverse applicant pool. Canada’s ethno-cultural mosaic is changing, with an increase in immigration from non-European countries. To reflect changes in the labour market, to cultivate diversity and to meet its personnel needs, the CF are building upon the successful community recruiting office in the Indo-Canadian community of Surrey, B.C. by opening a similar office in the Chinese-Canadian community in Richmond, B.C. These initiatives will provide personal contact on a daily basis within these communities, forging stronger relationships based on trust and understanding, and building the foundation for successful recruiting in the future. Additional community recruiting offices will be opened in other major cities across Canada.
     
     The CF will examine the attraction benefits of a bonus for Combat Arms and some air force trades and will continue to offer recruiting bonuses to distressed trades, such as doctors, engineers and certain non-commissioned member technical trades like signal operators, naval technicians, and Fire Control System technicians.
     
     To address the issue of historical delays in obtaining the required medical assessment for recruits, the CF are improving the quality of the forms civilian doctors use to communicate information back to the Recruiting Medical Office. The CF are also implementing conditional enrolments after the second portion of the medical assessment to further reduce waiting times, in those cases where such approval can be reasonably expected.
     
     
   • Retention
     
     Defence continues to be challenged with personnel tempo, which refers to the sum of the demands military service makes on CF members and their families, such as deployment load, training requirements, other types of time away and workload. The CF are reviewing and evaluating the results of the Human Dimensions of Deployment Study.
     
     By dedicating more resources to training, Defence plans to manage the influx of recruits and curb attrition rates that occur when personnel must wait for occupational training. For example, the CF will deploy personnel in ‘Employment While Awaiting Training’ positions throughout the country so they can gain experience in their given military occupations.
     
     The following are other retention initiatives being pursued in the reporting year.
     
     
     • develop fair and effective performance evaluation procedures that motivate, provide performance feedback, recognize exceptional performance and provide developmental opportunities, and that apply at both the individual and team level;
     • restructure military occupations to group occupations and common/generic jobs into career fields to broaden individual career development and meet operational requirements;
     • explore distance-learning initiatives to increase student enrolment while decreasing the amount of time a member has to be away from the home unit and their family; and
     • introduce a personnel-tracking policy in 2006 to collect and monitor a single, complete, national record of a member’s or unit’s time away.

     The CF are developing a strategy to modernize their compensation and benefits framework that will include the proposed delegation of certain authorities to the CDS with respect to human resource and compensation policies. This modernization activity is a critical component of the CF's ability to recruit, train, deploy and retain members and is necessary for it to execute the Government of Canada's direction.

     Similarly, the CF is examining options to utilize an external committee structure to complement its negotiation process with Treasury Board with respect to compensation matters.

   Training
   
   Defence established the Canadian Manoeuvre Training Center (CMTC) at CFB Wainwright to provide world-class, simulated force-on-force collective training—a key institutional capability essential to the implementation of the army strategy. The CMTC will provide a realistic environment in a national training centre for learning and confirming skills up to formation-level battle task standard in all operations. It will also provide the means to evaluate readiness for those task forces conducting theatre, mission-specific training in preparation for operational deployment.
   
   The CMTC will be a key training and evaluation facility designed to improve the operational readiness and effectiveness of tasked forces. It will be the critical link in the army performance measurement system, providing direct evaluation of the proficiency of army units within a collective training environment thus becoming a critical component of the Army Managed Readiness Plan.
   
   The CF will provide members with more operationally relevant training and professional development to ensure mission success in a very dynamic and challenging security environment. As an example, an enhanced Basic Military Qualification (BMQ) for Regular and Reserve Force non-commissioned members will be in place in 2006. This BMQ will ensure that recruits and officer candidates get the same level of operationally-focused initial training, while providing the appropriate leadership development for officers.
   
   Promote Health and Wellness Efforts to sustain and improve the standard of health care provided to CF members at home and abroad are managed under the umbrella of the Rx2000 project. This project consists of 22 interdependent initiatives in various stages of implementation that, once fully in place, will ensure that CF members have access to comprehensive primary and occupational health care and that the CF have an effective Health Services system that responds to training and operational needs (including those of force generation and force employment).
   
   Priority initiatives for fiscal year 2006-2007 that fall under the auspices of the Rx2000 project include:
   
   
   • Mental Health Care – Mental health issues account for the greatest percentage decrease in productivity in the CF. The CFHS has developed a model for mental health care that will have a phased roll-out at CF clinics over the next four years; and
   • Joint Mental Health Care Project – In partnership with Veterans Affairs Canada and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the CFHS is exploring access, care standards and synergistic relationships related to the mental health care of serving and retired members.
   The following describe other Health Services priorities that fall outside the Rx2000 project renewal initiative.
   
   
   • Operational Support Structure – In light of fundamental changes emerging from CF transformation and the evolving international security environment, the CFHS intends to conduct a comprehensive review of its field force structure, in order to ensure that deployable health services units and capabilities are best configured to flexibly support a transformed CF.
   • Aeromedical Evacuation – A review of aeromedical evacuation capabilities is currently underway to address the mandate, human resources, medical equipment, and training required to meet the increasing operational tempo and the new CF structure.
   • Montfort Hospital – A direct services partnership has been put in place with the public health care sector. The Canadian Forces Health Services Centre Ottawa will be relocated in early 2007 to a new facility under construction at the Montfort hospital.
   • Canadian Forces Health Information System (CFHIS) – A component of the CFHIS project is the implementation of an electronic health record that will enable over 5,500 CF health care and dental professionals and managers, located in medical and dental clinics across Canada, to securely share information and coordinate care for 85,000 Regular and Reserve force personnel. In addition to the electronic health record, patient scheduling and registration capability and new clinical applications to support health care delivery will be piloted and implemented, including laboratory and radiology results review for providers requesting these diagnostic tests. This project is a government enterprise solution that will address the Canadian Health Council’s call for mandatory electronic patient records.
   • Injury Prevention – In fiscal year 2006–2007, the CF propose to launch an injury data collection process at CF medical treatment facilities and develop and implement an injury prevention program.
   • Health Promotion –The CF health promotion program Strengthening the Forces will introduce additional educational and skill building opportunities by doubling the number of programs that can be locally delivered by the Health Promotion offices at 24 bases and wings across Canada and in Europe. New or updated programs coming on line will include Alcohol, Other Drugs and Gambling Awareness; Managing Angry Moments; Top Fuel for Top Performance; Set Your Sights on Healthy Eating; and Stronger Together: Relationship Skills for CF Couples.
   Continuous Learning The Canadian Defence Academy plays a critical role in creating and sharing knowledge in the Defence community during a time when transformation is posing substantial challenges to military professional development and education. Curriculum requirements exceed the current capacity of the CF’s residential establishments, and military educational expectations exceed the capacity of any single officer or non-commissioned officer. The Canadian Defence Academy’s response to this challenge is articulated in the publication Learning Architecture. The publication discusses the impact of new learning technologies and methodologies — notably distributed learning, and important new trends, such as knowledge management.
   
   Other learning opportunities exist within Defence such as:
   
   
   • Articles of Clerkship Program: Through an articling program, students at law develop their skills in the areas of military law, including military justice and administrative law. Each year, up to three articling students carry out the 10-month articling phase of the bar admission course prescribed by their law societies. The Office of the Judge Advocate General (JAG) senior legal officers, act as articling principals and mentor the students. This arrangement has the added benefit of increasing the JAG’s recruiting base, since some of these students may apply for positions as military lawyers with the Office of the JAG.
   • Organizational Learning/Lessons Learned: DND/CF has a long history of managing and mobilizing knowledge, primarily in the context of the conduct of operations. The current focus for DND/CF is to harness the success of these organizations and create a corporate wide DND/CF vision and strategy for knowledge transfer/lessons learned that would promote continuous learning and improve performance. Defence will lead the advancement of knowledge transfer/lessons learned practices by creating knowledge and awareness of the practice, providing governance and guidance within Defence, and offer a link to products and services to assist organizations on their journey.
   • Individual Learning: In an effort to maintain a professional, qualified force, the CF continue to strive for a “degreed officer corps.” The aim is to recruit officers with degrees, or assist members who meet policy requirements to attain a degree. Efforts are also underway to enhance the educational qualifications of non-commissioned members.
   Reserve Force
   
   The Reserve Force is composed of CF members who are enrolled for service other than continuing, full-time military service. The Reserve Force is divided into four sub-components:
   
   
   • the Primary Reserve;
   • the Supplementary Reserve;
   • the Cadet Instructor Cadre; and
   • the Canadian Rangers.
   Primary Reserve
   
   The role of the Primary Reserve is to augment, sustain and support deployed forces and, in some cases, perform tasks that are not performed by Regular Force members. The CF are continuing to explore ways to enhance the role of Reserves in civil preparedness to respond to natural disasters and local emergencies.
   
   The Primary Reserve structure includes the following:
   
   
   1. Naval Reserve. The Naval Reserve provides highly trained, combat-capable sailors for the ships’ companies of the navy’s Kingston class maritime coastal defence vessels and for coastal operations. Coastal operations include roles distinct to the Naval Reserve, such as port security, and naval co-ordination and advice to shipping, as well as shared roles, such as mine countermeasures and intelligence. The total strength of the Naval Reserve stands at 4,050 of all ranks. Defence expects the Naval Reserve will reach its approved strength ceiling of 5,100 by 2015. The CF have invested in recruiting, training, long-term retention, leadership, management and public affairs initiatives for the Naval Reserve to ensure its long-term viability.
   2. Army Reserve. Canada’s Army Reserve (Militia) is organized in 137 units in 110 cities and towns across the country. The roles of the Army Reserve are to provide the framework to mobilize, augment and sustain the Regular Force and serve as a link between the military and civilian communities.
      
      The Land Force Reserve Restructure (LFRR)’s mission is to develop an effective and credible Army Reserve that is complementary and supplementary to the Regular Force and relevant to the needs of the nation. LFRR is a two-phase process. While Phase 1 focused on stabilizing and testing new capabilities, Phase 2 will focus on change and growth. The CF plan is to increase the paid strength of the Army Reserve to 17,300 from its current strength of 16,000 by fiscal year 2009–2010. Within the context of the Army Strategy, both the Regular and the Reserve components will go through significant change in the upcoming year, to streamline and improve force generation. For the Army Reserve, this effort will significantly increase its force generation responsibilities, both in terms of depth (by providing reinforcement) and of breadth (by providing unique capabilities not available in the Regular component, such as chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear response; civil-military co-operation; and psychological operations). The CF will conduct an Army Reserve Establishment Review to allocate growth to areas where there is the greatest requirement.
   3. Air Reserve. The Air Reserve has been an integral part of defence planning throughout the history of the air force. The air force has integrated the highly trained men and women of the Air Reserve into total force units with a single chain of command that supports all aspects of air force operations. Currently, the total strength of the Air Reserve stands at approximately 2,300 personnel in all ranks. The integrated air force structure means that air reservists are readily available for the day-to-day operation of the CF. Air Reserve members are now serving in many of the newly established command organizations, helping to ensure the effective integration of reservists into the new CF structure.
   4. Communication Reserve. The Communication Reserve is mandated to generate forces and sustain combat-capable communication and information systems elements and information operation support elements to augment deployed operations and strategic missions at home and abroad. The Communication Reserve recently created a reserve Communications Research Operator occupation. Occupational training will commence in 2006 at the CF School of Communications and Electronics at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Kingston. Senior communications research personnel will be employed in key headquarters to provide continuing occupational oversight and guidance. The Communication Reserve will continue to focus on centralized training locations, currently CFB Kingston for occupational training and CFB Shilo for recruit and leadership training.
   5. Health Services Reserve. The Health Services Reserve is heavily involved in both sustainment and the change agenda within the CF Health Services Group. The Group has central command and control of all Health Services Reserve units comprising approximately 1,200 personnel. They have been organized into two functional groups; Primary Reserve units known as Field Ambulance units, and the CF Health Services Primary Reserve List (PRL). Field Ambulance units train personnel to support, augment and sustain CF Health Services Group elements on operations, and to provide health services support to their affiliated Canadian Brigade Group. The members of the Health Services Reserve, primarily clinicians, augment a variety of Health Services organizations on operations and in clinics in Canada. Priorities for the Health Services Reserve in fiscal year 2006–2007 include:
      • Strategic Recruiting Plan – This living document is focussed on the attraction and enrolment of civilian trained clinicians to increase the clinical capability within the Reserve Field Ambulances and to increase the numbers of health service providers on the Health Services PRL, from both a training and operational/tasking perspective; and
      • Individual Training for Health Services Military Occupational Structure Identification (MOSID) – Regular Force basic military occupation training for Medical and Nursing Officers has been modularized to facilitate access for Reserve clinicians. A phased training approach has been initiated to harmonize Regular and Reserve Force Medical Technician qualifications thus raising the standard of clinical training and therefore the standard of care delivered by the Reserve Medical Technicians. This modularized training commenced during the 2006 summer training period.
   6. Reserve Force legal officers are held on the JAG Primary Reserve List (PRL). They are employed on Class “A” and “B” service conducting duties as military prosecutors, defending officers and military legal advisors to JAG clients. The JAG manages their careers.
   The Environmental Chiefs of Staff (Maritime, Land and Air) command their respective Reserve elements, and the Assistant Deputy Minister (Information Management) controls the Communication Reserve. Reserve Health Services personnel are under the control of the Director General of Health Services.
   
   A major challenge facing Defence will be to recruit a total of 10,000 new reservists identified in Budget 2006. Senior representatives from the Primary Reserve are working with the Chief of the Defence Staff transformation team, ensuring that the Reserves are considered in every aspect of transformation.
   
   Supplementary Reserve
   
   The Supplementary Reserve is composed of personnel with previous military service who could be recalled for military service in an emergency. Members of the Supplementary Reserve may serve on a voluntary basis, but are not required to perform any duty or training except when placed on Active Service.
   
   Cadet Instructor Cadre
   
   The Cadet Instructor Cadre is made up of officers whose primary duty is the supervision, administration and training of cadets. They ensure the cadets’ safety and welfare while developing in them the characteristics of leadership, citizenship, physical fitness and an interest in the CF.
   
   Canadian Rangers
   
   The Canadian Rangers provide a military presence in sparsely settled, northern, coastal and isolated areas of Canada that cannot be covered by other elements of the CF. Their main task is to assist in the maintenance of Canadian sovereignty. The objectives for fiscal year 2006–2007 include:
   
   
   • conducting up to 30 Ranger Sovereignty Patrols during the year in accordance with the Joint Task Force North (JTFN) surveillance plan;
   • standing up and maintaining the necessary equipment and support personnel to form the infrastructure of a JTFN rapid reaction capability in accordance with the Campaign Operation Plan. This structure must be capable of deploying within 24 hours of notification, and be sustainable for up to four days;
   • conduct at least one enhanced sovereignty patrol to a vulnerable area of the Arctic Archipelago in accordance with the JTFN surveillance plan;
   • conducting North Warning System security patrols; and
   • given the appropriate personnel resources, raising the total number of Ranger patrols in the JTFN area of responsibility to 60 and Junior Canadian Ranger patrols to 34.
   Current Reserve Initiatives
   • Canadian Forces Liaison Council
     
     Currently, reservists make up 13% of DND’s deployed strength abroad, including one in seven soldiers in Afghanistan. The CF Transformation and anticipated commitments in international operations suggest that this rate of reservists’ participation in operations will be maintained, if not increased, under the new Integrated Managed Readiness System.
     
     Because Canada has no legislated job protection for voluntary service, the 45% of reservists with civilian employment and the 40% of reservists who are students depend on the voluntary support of employers and educational institutions to carry out their military duties.
     
     The Canadian Forces Liaison Council (CFLC) seeks to increase the support of organization leaders in Canada to enhance the availability of reservists for training and operations. Through sponsored military visits, local unit employer support events, professional and community organizations involvement and employer awards and recognition activities, the CFLC reaches a large number of employers and educational institutions on behalf of reservists in order to obtain a leave of absence from their employment or studies.
     
     
   • CF Pension Modernization Project
     
     The CF Pension Modernization Project was established to modernize all pension arrangements for members of the CF, both Regular and Reserve. Legislative approval was obtained in late 2004 and the regulatory framework is currently being developed. The CF Pension Modernization Project will be implemented in March 2007.
     
     
   Planned Reserve Strength
   
   The following table identifies the planned increase in the Reserve Force for the next three years.
   
   

   Reserve Planning Strength
   	Actual 2005-2006	Planned 2006-2007	Planned 2007-2008	Planned 2008-2009	Planned 2009-2010
   Primary Reserve1, 2 & 3	23,902	25,140	26,378	27,585	28,7924
   Suppl Res 5	40,000	32,376	N/A	N/A	N/A
   CIC 6	7,050	7,482	7,500	7,500	7,500
   CA Rangers 6 & 7	4,179	4,205	4,365	4,525	4,6858
   Total	76,862	69,668	38,999	39,187	39,327
   Source: DFPPC, CMP, and C Res Cdts

   
   
   Notes:
   
   
   1. Increase in planned strength reflects the Primary Reserve Force Expansion of 3,000 reservists announced in Budget 2005. Phase II of LFRR planned to increase the Army Reserve by 750 per year during 2003–2005 from 14,500 to 16,000 with the remaining 1,500 increase programmed during 2005–2010 from 16,000 to 17,250 in the Army Reserve and the balance (250) allocated to the Communication Reserve and other Primary Reserve.
   2. Primary Reserve reporting, planning and allocations will be based on an Average Paid Strength derived from monthly reports provided by DSFC/DFECS.
   3. The Health Services Reserves are increasing as part of the Rx2000 project
   4. Average Paid Strength of Primary Reserve forecast to stabilize at 30,000 beginning fiscal year 2010–2011.
   5. The strength of the Supplementary Reserve cannot be planned with a reasonable degree of accuracy, since it is a holding list that varies significantly with attrition and transfers within the CF. Source: CMP
   6. Sources: CIC and Rangers actual for fiscal year 2005-2006 from Chief Reserves and Cadets; forecast and planned from DFPPC.
   7. Canadian Rangers will be under the Command of Chief of Land Staff starting in October 2006.
   8. Canadian Ranger expansion to 5,000 by fiscal year 2011–2012.
2. Human Resources: Civilian
   
   DND must attract the right number and mix of motivated, qualified civilian personnel, in a timely fashion, to meet Defence’s growing needs. The Assistant Deputy Minister (Human Resources – Civilian) has identified the following challenges and priorities for fiscal year 2006–2007:
   
   
   • implementation of the Public Service Employment Act (PSEA);
   • civilian impacts of CF transformation and potential restructuring;
   • recruitment and staffing;
   • retention strategies; and
   • technology.
   Implementation of PSEA
   
   The Department will focus on the following activities to implement the PSEA:
   
   
   • develop and implement a DND Employment Equity Staffing Program under the new PSEA;
   • effective April 1, 2006, the clause added to the PSEA by the Canadian Forces Members and Veterans Re-establishment and Compensation Act, that allows Departments to include members of the Regular Force and members of the Reserve Force who, at the time of application, are serving on a period of Class B or C service in excess of 180 days, in advertised internal appointment processes as long as they meet the other area of selection criteria;
   • develop a framework for hiring and employing civilian staff on international operations; and
   • integrate HR planning and business planning. The new PSEA stresses the importance of HR planning as a foundation to support recruitment and staffing. In fiscal year 2006–2007, DND will require that senior management provide HR plans to support their business plans; develop recruitment and staffing strategies to address HR planning issues and identify the HR impact during the planning phase of long-term capital projects.
   Civilian Impacts of CF transformation and potential restructuring
   
   CF transformation, restructuring and reorganization will result in changes to the civilian workforce. At the present time, the breadth and nature of these changes are still being investigated. However, it is certain that force expansion, large scale maintenance and repair projects, reorganizations and the conversion of some traditional military positions to civilian positions will place a heavy burden on an already stressed public service recruitment process. The restructuring of the CF is expected to bring the conversion of military positions to the forefront, as well as identify specialized groups required to fill these positions. At the same time, integrating the civilian workforce more closely into CF structures, to ensure optimal utilization of skills and experience, will become a more pressing need in order to release military resources for operational deployment. The activities planned for fiscal year 2006–2007 include:
   
   
   • a review of the Human Resources - Civilian support function and alignment of its structure to support the execution of CF operations while providing broader civilian HR service delivery functions; and
   • supporting the creation and stand up of the new organizations/commands.
   Recruitment and Staffing
   
   The demographic implications of an ageing population and a more diverse labour pool, the introduction of the People Component Management Accountability Framework, CF transformation, departmental surge activities and changes to the PSEA will require additional effort to recruit and retain qualified staff within the organization.
   
   DND continues to experience staff shortages and recruitment challenges for General Labour and Trades (GL), Purchasing and Supply (PG), Ship Repair (SR), Computer Systems Administration (CS), Engineering and Land Survey (EN) and Ships’ Officers (SO) classifications. Key 2006-2007 activities will be to provide ongoing support for the increased surge HR activity related to civilian workforce turnover and growth and ensure continued support to sustain a greater civilian population resulting from surge staffing.
   
   
   Recruitment
   
   DND will develop a strategy to identify specific tactics for addressing recruitment shortages and align with the requirements identified in the 2005–2006 Functional Assessment to recruit over 3,000 civilian employees across the Department. Apprenticeship Programs
   
   DND is reviewing current apprenticeship programs to assess challenges, client requirements and success rates. The aim for fiscal year 2006–2007 is to provide a national level apprenticeship framework and renewed policy, which will include programs tailored to the unique needs of DND and enhance Defence’s ability to attract employees into critical occupational groups.
   
   Key activities for fiscal year 2006–2007 will be to establish a framework for all apprenticeship programs, with the priority on the GL occupation, which will include:
   
   

   • a revised national policy and program that will address current staffing, classification, compensation and learning and development issues and inconsistencies; and
   • enhanced partnerships with all levels of government as well as with educational institutions.

   The bulk of civilian growth is linked to apprenticeships in the ship repair, general labour, heating plant and firefighter occupational groups. DND will largely use apprenticeship to meet recruitment needs in these occupations, which are expected to rise until 2012 due to an increase in the retirement rate.
   
   Classification Renewal
   
   Work is progressing on establishing a business case and proposed policy for moving to a generic work description environment over the next five years. Beginning in 2006–2007, DND will develop and implement generic work descriptions in the new work description format. In tandem, an overarching e-classification Statement of Requirement is being developed to identify and facilitate the continued improvement of tools and processes such as electronic position files and a new means of managing organization and establishment requirements.
   
   
   Retention Strategies
   
   
   Leadership Development Program (LDP)
   
   The LDP is a two-year accelerated leadership pilot program, launched in September 2005, giving candidates opportunities to broaden their work experience through departmental assignments and training. The objective is to prepare EX feeder group (EX minus 1) employees to be ready for EX-01 competitions.
   
   Based on the changes to the Public Service Leadership Development Programs that came into effect April 2006, DND will:
   
   

   • review its current program to rebalance the roles of both Career Assignment Program and the Leadership Development Program in succession planning within DND; and
   • continue to fully support participants already enrolled in the Career Assignment Program until they graduate, with a goal of retaining at least 50% of these participants within DND.

   Promote Employee Well-Being
   
   The Employee Well-Being Framework encompasses a collection of programs dealing with the health of civilian employees, including the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), awards and recognition, and the Civilian Performance Planning and Review (CPPR) process.
   
   Key activities for fiscal year 2006–2007 include:
   
   

   • organizing and hosting a national award and recognition ceremony;
   • hosting a national (biennial) EAP symposium;
   • enhancing EAP communication; and
   • developing a departmental retention strategy.

   Learning
   
   The National Defence Civilian Education Support Program (formerly Departmental Scholarship Program) promotes continuous education, as well as career development and mobility. Defence awards a minimum of eight scholarships annually, for one academic year, to indeterminate employees to help them obtain a degree, diploma, certificate or accreditation through full-time studies at a recognized Canadian educational institution.
   
   Throughout this planning year, DND will:
   
   

   • conduct an evaluation study to assess the impact of the program on individual recipients, on their work units, and on the organization in general;
   • maximize learning opportunities offered by the Canada School of Public Service and, through e-learning, provide financial flexibility for learning activities aligned with corporate DND priorities; and
   • leverage the new Learning, Training and Development Policy to address learning issues highlighted in Senior Management HR plans.
   
   
   Technology
   
   The quality of HR plans and supporting statistical information depends on the accuracy of both personnel and position data in the Human Resources Management System (HRMS). To achieve this, DND will focus on system maintenance, including data clean-up and corrections to the organization and establishment information, train HRMS users to ensure solid understanding of the HRMS as a system and related business processes and monitor the system on an ongoing basis to detect data errors and initiate corrections.
   
   Upgrading HRMS software to version 8.9 will provide a self-service environment that will require the introduction of new reference material and re-engineered business processes. The implementation of HRMS version 8.9 will enable clients to complete transactions more frequently on a self-serve basis with strategic advice provided by HR officers.
   
   In fiscal year 2006–2007, DND will:
   
   
   • ensure significant progress on the transition of HRMS to version 8.9 as a key driver in improving civilian HR service delivery; and
   • extend the leave self-service pilot project.
   
   
   Joint Military/Civilian initiative
   
   
   Learning and Career Development
   
   The major components of the Defence Learning Network (DLN) currently include 15 Learning and Career Centres (LCCs) strategically located at selected CF bases and wings; an off-the-shelf corporate Learning Management Platform (LMP); and a National Centre of Excellence, which includes a Test Laboratory that could function as an In-Service Support Facility.
   
   Once the DLN is fully implemented, it will address numerous deficiencies in the departmental training and education system and streamline the process of training within the Department. It will support the military Quality of Life initiative and foster an environment of continuous learning for the Defence Team.

b.     Modernize and Transform the CF through capital acquisitions

c.     Optimize Resource Utilization

Several new initiatives have been undertaken to optimize resource utilization. These will be pursued during the reporting year.

• Strategic Costing Model. Defence has developed a Strategic Costing model that captures all aspects of the existing force structure as well as the planned capability development. This database will model the cost and affordability of the development of future capabilities. It will enable defence planners to clearly understand the complete financial resource commitments as well as articulate a strategy to achieve them. In addition, force structure costing will enable informed decision making for transformation. The long-term objective is to ensure that the costing model process is institutionalized and seamlessly integrated into capability-based planning.
• Strategic Asset Management Model (SAMM). The SAMM has been developed by Defence to calculate the current value of its existing asset base and to estimate replacement and sustainability gaps. It allows Defence to model asset replacement and sustainment costs (including the personnel, operating and maintenance factors) and thereby forecast the approximate funding required. It also allows Defence to show the high cost of sustaining equipment that is well beyond its life expectancy. When fully developed, the SAMM will be one of the financial decision support tools used to determine the optimal net replacement strategy.
• Strengthen financial management within Defence by improving existing financial reports. To deliver on this commitment Defence will continue to improve the Executive Financial Statement that is produced on a quarterly basis to provide Defence executives with an overview of the Departmental budget. The report currently includes three sections, the current Financial Position and Situation, Accrual Situation, and Financial Performance Measures. The objective of this report is to provide executives with complete and accurate financial management information in accordance with accepted accounting principles to improve decision-making.
• Performance Measures. Within the framework of the Balanced Scorecard, Defence is developing financial indicators to measure the performance of the allocation and utilization of financial resources. Ratios will measure the amount of funds being applied to the maintenance of capital equipment and infrastructure to improve decision-making regarding asset acquisition and disposal. Measures are also being developed to determine the effectiveness of the life cycle management of capital equipment.
• International Financial Linkages. Defence has pursued contacts with Senior Financial Officer (SFO) counterparts in the UK, the US, Australia and New Zealand. These discussions have concentrated on lessons learned in the accrual accounting environment, comptrollership, shared services and risk management. A similar round of sessions with selected European NATO allies is in the planning stages with the aim of further expanding the SFO experience base on the same range of issues noted above. The possibility of Canada hosting a Defence SFO Colloquium in 2006 is also under consideration.

Defence supports a balanced, effective and efficient use of resources based on its strategic capability requirements and consistent with the Government of Canada standards. In fiscal year 2006–2007, Defence will continue to optimize its resource utilization by:

• monitoring financial spending results against planned spending;
• ensuring that resources are allocated and re-allocated based on strategic priorities, transformation initiatives and capability requirements; and
• ensuring that capital programs (equipment, infrastructure, and IM/IT) are linked to strategic priorities, transformation initiatives, and capability requirements identified in a long-term capital plan, and ensure they include divestiture strategies, life-cycle management, and risk management. The effectiveness of capital program delivery will be tracked against a long-term capital plan. Monitor Resource Utilization
  
  The effectiveness by which Defence utilizes its resources will be assessed through the Performance Management Framework (PMF). The following four indicators will track the performance in this area:
  
  Balanced Investment
  
  The Vice Chief of the Defence Staff (VCDS) and the Assistant Deputy Minister (Policy) are co-leading an initiative to prepare a comprehensive Defence Capabilities Plan that will lay out in detail the investments Defence intends to make over the coming years in support of transformation.
  
  Capital Assets
  
  Defence continues its progress towards ensuring all its capital assets (i.e. realty assets, military equipment, etc.) and inventory (i.e. repairable and consumable goods) are identified and accounted for in accordance with full accrual accounting principles. Defence has embarked on a major initiative aimed at reviewing and strengthening the departmental financial control framework to enable the department to meet the federal government objective of having its financial statements audited starting with the 2008-09 financial statements.
  
  In fiscal year 2006–2007, Defence will continue to ensure that information on contractor-held inventory catalogued in the Canadian Forces Supply System (CFSS) is accurate and complete. The Materiel Acquisition and Support Optimization Project office is taking stock on site with six contractors and will continue reviewing remaining contractor sites over a timeframe still to be determined.
  
  Materiel Management In fiscal year 2005–2006, Defence established accrual accounting for repairable spares held in supply customer accounts. As a result, Defence will re-evaluate its policy for accounting for such spares to include the correct value of repairable spares in future statements. At the same time, Defence will need to address the impact of any change to the way certain assets, such as stand-alone capital assets and surplus equipment, are capitalized in the Materiel Acquisition and Supply Information System.
  
  Realty Assets: Infrastructure The DND/CF realty assets portfolio includes national owned and international leased assets, making DND one of the largest custodians of Canadian government realty assets. By area, National Defence has approximately 33 percent of the buildings inventory of the federal government and seven percent of the federal land inventory. National Defence is the largest building owner by quantity (i.e. number of buildings) with 20 bases/wings (two naval, eight army, nine air force and one training) as well as military installations in every province and territory consisting of locations in 290 cities/municipalities. The total realty replacement costs for DND land, buildings and works, including housing is estimated at $21.3 billion. The responsibility associated with managing such vast amounts of realty assets, including several designated heritage sites, places a significant demand on Defence’s sustainment capability.
  
  In fiscal 2006–2007, DND will:
  
  
  • develop the Realty Asset Strategy, as the centerpiece of the Realty Asset Management Framework, as a long-term strategy to ensure that the Department has the right realty assets to support current and future defence capabilities. The Strategy will provide the strategic direction and objectives to guide and focus realty asset activities towards a department-wide common vision and manage assets as a national portfolio;
  • continue to develop the CFB Gagetown Range and Training Area restoration plan. Once completed, it will be used as a model in developing an army Range and Training Area Management system that will draw from lessons learned and recommendations from the Sustainable Management Plan;
  • put in place an Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Legacy Site Management Program to identify legacy UXO affected sites and determine risk mitigation measures in order to reduce the risk in a systematic and timely manner;
  • develop and implement a multi- year integrated Infrastructure and Environment information strategy and plan. This plan will integrate departmental Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), corporate data warehouse and geomatics/spatial systems, and all Infrastructure and Environment business related to finance, HR and materiel processes. As well, it will provide linkage with external partners such as Defence Construction Canada and other government departments; and
  • work closely with the Canadian Forces Housing Agency to ensure that the most critical housing requirements are met in an expeditious manner.

Procurement and Contract Management and Project Management

Defence is establishing new, and reinforcing existing departmental standards for financial procedures and management, including procurement and contracting processes. The Defence Oversight Committee on Contracting (DOCC) will oversee DND’s contractual framework and associated financial controls and practices and will ensure that a sound risk management framework is in place and functioning well.

For example, to improve its procurement process and practices, Defence is working very closely with Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) on its Procurement Reform/Way Forward initiative and is also adopting best practices as standard practices.

In fiscal year 2006–2007, DND will implement or continue the following procurement initiatives by:

• pursuing an Optimized Weapons System Management (OWSM) approach to procurement planning, whereby requirements are typically bundled into longer-term support contracts. This approach reduces the volume of contracting activity, which in turn reduces administrative costs and provides an incentive for industry to invest and collaborate. DND is implementing six OWSM initiatives, including CF-18, CP-140, CC-130 and wheeled light armoured vehicles initiatives;
• implementing several PWGSC-led procurement reforms, including the following:
  • Standing offers: Defence mandated the use of standing offers for 10 commodities and significantly reduced procurement lead-time from weeks to a few days. DND will apply this approach to more commodities, in close co-operation with PWGSC.
  • The Commodity Councils and Commodity Teams for 12 commodities: Defence is playing a leading role in these initiatives, through which participating departments will procure commodities via government-wide standing offers and supply arrangements. The resulting economies of scale should reduce prices significantly, allowing Defence to save money.
  • The Government of Canada Marketplace: Defence is working with PWGSC to develop this e-procurement solution, with a view to integrating it with DND procurement records systems (MASIS and CFSS);
• participating in Treasury Board policy reviews. DND will support and comply with Treasury Board to review and implement new policies in simple and complex procurement, materiel and project management;
• participating on an advisory committee to help develop the Professional Certification and Development Program for procurement and materiel management personnel; and
• developing a training strategy and framework for Materiel Acquisition and Support (MA&S) training in DND. The strategy will identify MA&S training requirements; compare them to the actual training being delivered; consider new training requirements, such as those related to the new Treasury Board policy and to the Professional Certification and Development Program; and develop an MA&S training framework containing an integrated MA&S training program for DND. DND will implement the MA&S training strategy and framework in phases. The first phase will focus on procurement training needs. To that end, a new DND training program is being developed for the purchasing and supply group. This program includes the following elements:
  • Professional Certification and Development Program training (including training related to the new Treasury Board policy on procurement and green procurement);
  • DND-specific procurement training;
  • training on CFSS and MASIS; and
  • HR training for procurement personnel.
  Defence will implement the DND Procurement Group training program by year-end and will use it as the basis for future phases of the MA&S training framework, which will include training programs for project managers, materiel managers, engineers, lifecycle materiel managers and others.

Information and IT Management Processes

Significant strides have been made in the DND/CF information management/information technology (IM/IT) domain since Defence’s last report to Parliament. The Defence Management Committee has endorsed an IM Strategy, an IM Strategic Plan and a number of key management measures to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the DND/CF information environment. These measures extend the institutional commitment to taking an enterprise approach, under the strong and responsive leadership of the Information Management Group.

The following key features describe the recent and ongoing activities in the IM/IT domain.

• Transformation of the Enterprise Resource Planner (ERP) Environment. As is the case in many large public and private institutions, the DND/CF ERP environment includes a number of incompatible and unsynchronized applications addressing human resources, finance, materiel, logistics and the like. Because these applications are incompatible, the overall environment has high operating and lifecycle costs and cannot deliver high-level integrated decision support capability without expensive integrating technology. DND and the CF are investigating the option of transforming the ERP environment to a single, integrated ERP encompassing all key functions and high-level decision support capability. Preliminary findings indicate that this option is viable and will offer long-term savings while facilitating transformational process improvement.
• Transformation of the Military Command and Control (C2) Environment. The situation in the automated military C2 environment is similar to that in the ERP environment. DND and the CF are in the early stages of a Single C2 Study that seeks to rationalize and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its C2 environment.
• Transformation of IM/IT Service Delivery. In anticipation of government-wide rationalization of basic IM/IT service delivery, DND and the CF have begun to investigate alternative means of delivering IM/IT services. The project is in its early stages; however, it has already given Defence unprecedented visibility into the activities and costs of this function. Defence expects this project will lay the groundwork for efforts to make service delivery much more effective and efficient, in harmony with broader government objectives.
• Rationalized Program Control. In addition to the key initiatives described above, DND and the CF have put in place the following management measures to improve program delivery.
  • Improved comptrollership financial management training. The IM Group has increased the robustness of its integral comptrollership function and put in place an improved program of financial management training for all managers. The result has been increased visibility into IM/IT-related expenditures and improved resource management.
  • Improved Responsiveness and Client Service. The IM Group has created a single Client Relationship Management organization to improve client service and responsiveness. This organization will give all DND/CF stakeholders a single, accessible point of contact for IM/IT-related concerns and advice.
  • Rationalization of Software Development. IM/IT governance has been improved to regulate the local development of software applications. The challenge is to impose a level of regulation and control that strikes a balance between the organization’s desire for an efficient and effective program and the local manager’s desire to employ and utilize the full potential of IM/IT, free from restraint. Toward this end, the Defence Management Committee has directed that software applications not be developed locally when an existing or planned national project will deliver the functionality required.

Conduct Operations

Strategic Outcome: Success in assigned missions in contributing to domestic and international peace, security and stability.

1. These FTE numbers are derived from a representative financial formula as there is not a consistent 1:1 relationship between FTEs and programs.
Source: Assistant Deputy Minister (Finance and Corporate Services), Chief Military Personnel and Assistant Deputy Minister (Human Resources - Civilian)

The capability to conduct operations effectively at home and abroad is provided by efficient, professional maritime, land, air and special operations forces, supported by many partners and agencies. It comprises a variety of activities, including international operations in conjunction with NATO and the UN, continental NORAD operations, and domestic operations, such as surveillance and control of Canadian territory.

Constant Situational Awareness

The CF will form a unified national command structure and system that includes a common information and intelligence network, along with common standards and procedures, and will expand and enhance information and intelligence fusion capability to better assess large amounts of intelligence in support of military and government decision-making. Without such a structure and system, the CF’s ability to successfully command operations from the strategic level to the tactical level will be jeopardized.

Domestic and Continental Operations

Canada Command (Canada COM) will conduct domestic and continental operations to detect, deter, prevent, pre-empt and defeat threats and aggression aimed at Canada within Canada COM’s area of operational responsibility.

Such operations will span the spectrum of military activity, from simple provision of manpower and equipment, through complex consequence management situations, to the commitment of combat-capable forces to support the civil power in the defence of Canada. Domestic operations can involve forces from the army, navy and air force, working singly or together, which may be routine or contingency in nature.

In particular, under Canada COM, the navy will maintain a “ready duty” warship on each coast, and a Joint Interagency Operations Center operating 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Similarly, the army will provide an appropriate way to conduct land-based operations. In addition, the Canadian Rangers will increase their northern patrols. The air force will continue to monitor and control Canada’s airspace and maritime approaches by participating in combined Canada-US operations conducted under NORAD.

The CF will continue to maintain primary fixed wing and rotary wing search and rescue (SAR) resources at appropriate levels of readiness. The Fixed Wing SAR project will procure new aircraft to replace the CC-115 Buffalo fleet, and that portion of the CC-130 Hercules fleet presently utilized for SAR.

The CF will also continue to assist other government departments and agencies (such as the RCMP and Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada), and other levels of government, in support of efforts such as ground searches, drug interdiction operations, disaster relief, law enforcement operations, fisheries and environmental protection, and official events.

Regarding continental defence, Maritime Command (MARCOM) will continue to establish the Joint Interagency Operations Centre and co-ordinate the maritime response to counter-terrorism threats. Specifically MARCOM, in support of Canada COM, will do the following:

• increase on-water patrols while sustaining, improving and evolving contingency response capabilities;
• continue to develop, foster and broaden operational links with other government departments, adjoining CF commands and allies, with the aim of improving surveillance coverage and all-source information fusion within the MARCOM Area of Operational Responsibility (AOR) and area of interest; and
• conduct overt and covert surveillance and sustain presence across the majority of the Maritime AOR, including the Arctic Region during Northern Deployment Exercise (NORPLOY) in August 2006 and the Great Lakes Region during the Kingston class Great Lakes MARS IV sea phase in July 2006.

Canadian Forces Joint Task Force North (JTFN)

A number of arctic security issues have emerged in recent years. The on-going interest in the oil and gas reserves of the Beaufort Sea and Mackenzie Delta, the increase in diamond and other mineral exploration, and the view of the Canadian Arctic as a pristine wilderness have all contributed to an increased awareness of the commercial possibilities of the North. With this increased interest and awareness have come increased traffic in the North – much of it from foreign nations. To assist in dealing with some of these challenges and assert Canadian sovereignty in the North, Defence must maintain surveillance, presence and response capabilities in the region.

• JTFN will pursue a comprehensive surveillance program throughout the AOR, especially around the Arctic Archipelago and other vulnerable areas. Routine sovereignty operations will include 200 plus patrols per year consisting of various types of Ranger patrols, army sovereignty operations, Advance Winter Warfare Course (AWWC) Arctic deployment and CF Aurora aircraft patrols.
• JTFN plans to conduct three major joint-integrated operations per year focused on enhancing inter-agency interoperability and exercising support relationships from southern JTFs and national assets. The three operations are:
  • High Arctic. An annual large-scale extended sovereignty patrol, conducted by the Canadian Rangers, which takes place on an uninhabited part of the AOR, normally during the winter, with CF support and some other government departments and non-government organization representation.
  • Eastern Arctic. An annual operation during the summer shipping and commercial fishing season involving one or more ships from Joint Task Force Atlantic (JTFA), supporting air assets, supporting communications assets, land forces from JTFN (Rangers) and as suited to the operation available army sub-units from the South. The operation integrates the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG), RCMP, Environment Canada, Fisheries and Oceans, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and Nunavut Emergency Measures Organization (EMO), etc., where appropriate.
  • Western Arctic. An annual operation during the summer when there is significant commercial and adventurer activity. The ice pack is a major constraint to Canadian naval operations in the Western Arctic, precluding deployment of a warship. Smaller naval vessels such as Rigid Inflatable Boats (RIB) together with supporting air assets, supporting communications assets, land forces from JTFN (Rangers) and as suited to the operation available army sub-units are deployed during this operation including other government departments such as the CCG, RCMP, CIC, CBSA and Northwest Territories EMO, etc., where appropriate.

  International Operations

  Security in Canada ultimately begins with stability abroad and the CF have an important role to play internationally.

  Reporting directly to the Chief of the Defence Staff, the Commander of CEFCOM is responsible for the conduct of all overseas operations, including humanitarian, peace support and combat operations.

  Through CEFCOM, the CF will support a range of international operations and will be prepared to do the following:

  • deploy forces globally, as directed by the Government, to participate in operations under NATO, the UN or other coalition auspices;
  • support Canada’s commitments to NATO and the UN by making maritime, land and air forces available to provide a rapid response capability for use in international emergencies and other security challenges;
  • deliver funds and materials from CIDA to civil-military co-operation projects in theatres of operation;
  • provide humanitarian assistance and conduct disaster relief activities in Canada and anywhere in the world which could include: helping civil authorities provide humanitarian relief, providing medical assistance, and re-establishing local infrastructure through the Disaster Assistance Response Team, possibly as part of an international joint and combined force; and
  • evacuate Canadians from foreign countries threatened by imminent conflict, in conjunction with the military forces of other nations.

  The deployable organizations under command of CEFCOM will include the following.

  The Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) will continue to provide humanitarian support and disaster relief to domestic and overseas missions, as directed. The core DART consists of four elements: primary medical care, water purification, Command and Control (C2) and integral support capable of expanding to include additional existing Canadian Forces capabilities. The DART Enhancement Project, expected to be completed in fiscal year 2007–2008, aims to enhance the DART concept as it relates to its flexibility by adding equipment to better serve disaster response needs. The lessons learned from the deployments to Sri Lanka and Pakistan will be used to guide equipment requirements.

  Maritime Command (MARCOM) will continue to deploy ships for international operations, specifically the Standing NATO Reaction Force Maritime Group 1 (SNMG 1), at a sustainable pace, while continuing to move forward on interoperability and pursue integration opportunities with the United States Navy. Maritime Forces Atlantic (MARLANT) will fulfill Canada’s commitment to NATO with HMCS Athabaskan and HMCS Iroquois Command SNMG 1 deployments in 2006. MARLANT will also prepare for the standby phase of SNMG 1 deployment in July 2007.

  The Land Force Command will continue to generate and maintain combat capable, multi-purpose land forces to meet Canada’s defence objectives. At the request of the Afghan government, and under a United Nations mandate, Canada is leading NATO’s expansion into southern Afghanistan with 2,300 Canadian troops in theatre. Even as they help the people of Afghanistan rebuild their country, they are playing a leadership role on the world stage and protecting Canada from terrorism.

  It is the Chief of Land Staff’s intent to aggressively pursue expansion activities to improve the force generation base. LFC composition will remain based on the types of people and organizations that are adaptive to changing environments, interoperable with other CF elements, and capable of leading integrated land effects.

  The Air Command will continue to deliver accurate combat firepower and act as a deterrent by using its modernized CF-18 Hornet fighter aircraft armed with satellite-guided precision munitions. The air force will conduct Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) through the co-ordinated employment of Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and modernized CP-140 Aurora long-range patrol aircraft. The air force will provide tactical mobility through the use of CC-130 Hercules transport aircraft, the CH-146 Griffon helicopter and new medium- or heavy-lift helicopters, which Canada plans to acquire over the next few years. The Aurora long-range patrol aircraft and ship-borne CH-124 Sea King helicopters will continue to support maritime operations until the CH-124 Sea King helicopters are replaced by the new CH-148 Cyclone helicopters, beginning in 2008.

  Building on experience gained in 2004 through the operational employment of tactical UAVs in Afghanistan, the air force will increase their use and expand their roles. New technologies have improved UAVs to a point where Defence can use their capabilities to complement existing surveillance platforms to provide improved ISR. Automated target recognition software will assist UAV operators as they cue other platforms, such as the modernized Aurora long-range patrol aircraft. The air force will continue to investigate other surveillance technologies, including enhancements to the North Warning System and the replacement of the obsolete Tactical Control Radars.

  The estimated costs associated with the CF International Operations can be found in Section 3, Table 8.

  For detailed information on activities related to operations in which the CF are currently involved, see http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/operations/current_ops-eng.asp

  Contribute to Canadian Government and Society, and the International Community, in Accordance with Canadian Interests and Values

  Strategic Outcome: Good governance, Canadian identity and influence in a global community.

  Program Activity: Contribute to Canadian Government, Society and International Community in Accordance with Canadian Interest and Values — Total Spending Net of Revenues
  Resources	Actual Spending 2005-2006	PlannedSpending 2006-2007	Planned Spending 2007-2008	Planned Spending 2008-2009
  Departmental Spending ($ Thousands)	$892,421	$928,019	$946,222	$983,184
  Capital Spending ($ Thousands)(included in departmental spending)	$23,987	$27,069	$25,619	$25,653
  Human Resources - Military FTEs1	938	971	971	971
  Human Resources - Civilian FTEs1	1,376	1,444	1,517	1,592

  1. These FTE numbers are derived from a representative financial formula as there is not a consistent 1:1 relationship between FTEs and programs.
  Source: Assistant Deputy Minister (Finance and Corporate Services), Chief Military Personnel and Assistant Deputy Minister (Human Resources - Civilian)

  This third program activity supports the Government of Canada’s outcome to provide good governance and to enhance Canada’s identity and influence in the global community. It comprises the following three program sub-activities:

  • provide advice to the Government of Canada;
  • contribute to Canadian government and society in accordance with Canadian interests and values; and
  • contribute to the international community in accordance with Canadian interests and values.

  Provide Advice to the Government of Canada

  DND will continue to provide defence and security advice to the Government of Canada as well as public information on defence policy and activities. In particular, DND will provide advice on the transformation of the CF, including the acquisition of new equipment and changes to the force structure.

  Defence and Security Policy Advice

  Strategic Partnerships

  Defence cannot work in a vacuum. Fostering multi-agency co-operation is both a strategy to achieve greater results and policy coherence across the Government and a process by which those results are achieved.

  National Defence will continue to work closely with other departments, particularly the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada (PSEPC) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), to enhance day-to-day links at the staff and executive levels and to craft strategic-level recommendations to government on responses to domestic and international crises. Co-operation at the strategic level will help to ensure greater policy and operational cohesion and effectiveness.

  Domestically, Canada COM will establish and maintain operational-level liaisons with other federal government departments. Regional Joint Task Force Commanders, responsible for executing the Canada COM mission within their assigned Areas of Operational Responsibility (AORs), will establish and maintain liaisons with local federal agencies, provincial departments and provincial police forces.

  Internationally, an integrated approach combining diplomacy, defence and development is the best strategy for supporting states, including failed and failing states, that are dealing with a broad range of interconnected problems. Defence will co-operate closely with other government departments, non-government organizations and other organizations on the developing situations in Haiti, Sudan and the Middle East, while maintaining its efforts on Afghanistan. Defence will work closely with DFAIT and CIDA representatives when they are in theatre, thereby increasing co-operation at the tactical and operational levels by using the “Whole of Government Approach”. This includes sharing information as required with the Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force established in DFAIT.

  Continue to Strengthen Defence and Security Arrangements with the US

  Defence will continue to work with its US counterparts to enhance North American security. NORAD remains a key element of the Canada–US defence relationship. In co-operation with DFAIT, Defence will implement the enhanced NORAD Agreement with the US.

  The Permanent Joint Board on Defence has expanded to include representation from NORAD, PSEPC and the US Department of Homeland Security and Mexican officials. This expanded membership will provide a more comprehensive approach to North American security and defence issues.

  Defence will continue to make meaningful contributions to the North American defence industrial base. It will also continue to participate in other continental security initiatives, including the Canada–US Security and Prosperity Partnership, where it will, among other activities, support continental maritime domain awareness initiatives.

  DND will continue to lead Canada’s involvement in the Operational Experts Group of the American-led Proliferation Security Initiative. It will also remain engaged as a North American security partner through bilateral work with the US and Mexico.

  More broadly, Canada will continue to participate at the Conference of Defence Ministers of the Americas; maintain its support for the Inter-American Defence Board and College; and continue with its bilateral maritime, land and air activities with other hemispheric partners.

  Security and Defence Forum

  Through the Security and Defence Forum, Defence will continue to develop and support a strong Canadian competence in contemporary security and defence issues; to foster informed public discussion and commentary; and to enhance communication between DND, the CF and the academic community.

  Defence and Security Military Advice

  Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC)

  DRDC, a DND agency, supports military operations by developing and assessing defence-related technologies and equipment that can contribute to Canada’s current and future defence capabilities. DRDC scientists analyze emerging defence trends, concepts and technologies for potential application in DND/CF tasks. Through its contracted research program, DRDC engages industry and academia in a variety of programs that enable DND to tap Canada’s entire defence and security science and technology (S&T) capability. DRDC also pursues key research and development (R&D) activities with Canadian industry and its allies. This assists the CF to be smart buyers and fosters Canadian industrial capabilities to potentially support acquisitions.

  DRDC is a leader in Canada’s Innovation Strategy and facilitates co-operation among other government departments, agencies and councils. It leads or participates in horizontal S&T initiatives under the public security and anti-terrorism umbrella. The Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Research and Technology Initiative (CRTI), led by DRDC, is one of the federal science community’s responses to these issues.

  DRDC is developing an integrated “system of systems” to protect Defence personnel from chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) agents, while optimizing their ability to work in the face of such hazards in international and domestic operations. DRDC feeds the outputs of its R&D initiatives into a number of capital and non-capital projects to give Canada a CBRN defensive capability in areas of detection and identification, decontamination, warning and reporting, individual and collective protection, hazard management; and medical counter-measures. DRDC will continue to work with both military and civilian first responders, who are likely to be called upon to handle chemical, biological or radiological (CBR) threats, at the Counter-Terrorism Technology Centre (CTTC) in Suffield, Alberta. The CTTC also serves as a forensic reference centre, validates CBR equipment and materials, and provides advice and training to the first-responder community.

  Arms Control and Proliferation Security

  Defence remains committed to achieving Canada’s arms and proliferation control objectives in close cooperation with DFAIT. Defence will seek to advance Canada’s efforts to prevent, contain and roll back the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by participating in the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) and by continuing its support for the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, as well as the G8 Global Partnership Program. Defence will play its part in UN Small Arms and Light Weapons regulatory activities, and will work to advance ratification of Protocol V (Explosive Remnants of War) to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. As well, Defence will continue to provide advice and guidance to Canada’s Permanent Delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe during Canada’s chairmanship of the Forum for Security Co-operation in the fall of 2006.

  The CF will continue to participate in arms control and verification operations in support of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty, the Vienna Document 1999 on Confidence and Security Building Measures, the Dayton Peace Accords, the Treaty on Open Skies, Small Arms and Light Weapons programs, and other treaties, conventions, agreements and arrangements. CF activities will include on-site and area inspections, reconnaissance and evaluation missions, escort and assistance to foreign inspections, as well as a range of observation and monitoring functions. The CF will also contribute to interdepartmental initiatives in new areas of verification and conflict prevention to advance Canada’s efforts with respect to proliferation security. These are key avenues through which Canada will seek to reduce and control various categories of weapons, limit and lower the threshold of conflict, and increase trust and security among states.

  Further information regarding arms control and proliferation security is available at: http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/arms/menu-en.asp.

  Contribute to Canadian Government and Society, in Accordance with Canadian Interests and Values

  Defence contributes to this program sub-activity through its many outreach and public awareness campaigns, its participation on committees and in defence fora, and the contributions of its multidisciplinary and knowledgeable staff to the development of regulations and policies. The following are a few examples of Defence’s contribution to this outcome.

  Support to Government of Canada Programs

  National Search and Rescue Secretariat and National Search and Rescue Program

  The National Search and Rescue Secretariat (NSS) was established in 1986 to provide leadership to the National Search and Rescue Program through the Interdepartmental Committee on Search and Rescue (ICSAR). ICSAR includes representatives from the federal departments and agencies providing Search and Rescue (SAR) services, and central agencies. The NSS reports directly to the Lead Minister for Search and Rescue (LMSAR), the Minister of National Defence.

  The NSS is accountable to LMSAR for the development, coordination, analysis and review of federal SAR program policies and plans, and for specific activities. In addition, the NSS provides leadership in enhancing coordination between provincial, territorial and federal SAR programs, and advises LMSAR on program issues.

  National SAR Program Management Framework

  The National SAR Program management framework is designed to meet key Government of Canada objectives in the areas of integrated performance information, collective risk management and appropriate control mechanisms. The framework is documented in the Strategic Directions Paper, the Program Plan and the Annual Report.

  Challenges and Risks

  The six key National Search and Rescue Program challenges identified are: Changing government priorities; Horizontal program management; Interoperability; Sustainability of volunteer SAR organizations; SAR events that go wrong; and, Physical environment.

  Plans and Priorities

  National SAR Secretariat Activities

  To support the National SAR Program priorities, the NSS has the following priority activities for fiscal year 2006–2007:

  • Implement new management and comptrollership of the Search and Rescue New Initiatives Fund;
  • Improve the National SAR Program management framework by strengthening performance reporting;
  • Determine Canada’s future role in COSPAS-SARSAT, including confirming Canada’s participation in the transition to middle earth orbit satellites;
  • Determine and implement options to obtain more effective, robust IM/IT infrastructure, including improvement in the management of government information that complies with government policies and guidelines;
  • Improve coordination between the National SAR Program and emergency management and public safety activities;
  • Identify the strengths and weaknesses of existing Northern SAR infrastructure and SAR-related plans and procedures, and develop solutions for risk reduction.
  • Ensure the maximum return on resources invested in the annual national workshop, SARSCENE, to the benefit of the search and rescue community and the public;
  • Engage provinces and territories, and other stakeholders, in addressing the emerging policy issues that impact the national search and rescue system;
  • Identify the key challenges that will need to be addressed to ensure a strong and viable SAR volunteer community.

  National SAR Program Plan Priorities

  The 2006 National SAR Program Plan identifies a number of priorities for the National SAR Program. The following have been identified as the top priorities that will influence the SAR plans and activities of the partners in the National SAR Program:

  • Public Education and Awareness: reduce the number and severity of SAR incidents. The development of creative inducements in the areas of prevention and mitigation could result in lower costs to all agencies including public healthcare, the insurance industry and SAR responders.
  • Data Management: improve the ability to collect, analyze and evaluate SAR incidents and/or responses in order to establish priorities and allocate resources.
  • SAR Volunteer Community: identify ways to sustain volunteer SAR organizations through training, funding and engagement.
  • Financial Resources: improve capability to link resource inputs, service outputs and program outcomes.
  • Training Standards and Exercises: encourage common training and standards across various sectors of the SAR community, and evaluate and reinforce them through multi-jurisdictional exercises that include common command, control and communications.
  • Technology: develop methods/vehicles to better integrate new alerting/communications technologies to enhance interoperability
  • Machinery of Government: strengthen ICSAR’s leadership of the National SAR Program through improved coordination between SAR and emergency management and public safety activities.

  National SAR Program Partner Activities

  The 2006 National SAR Program Plan identifies a number of new or ongoing initiatives to be carried out by SAR organizations during the coming year (lead organization indicated) that will have significant long-term impacts on the delivery of SAR services in Canada:

  • Fixed Wing Search and Rescue Aircraft Procurement (CF)
  • Coast Guard Fleet Renewal (CCG)
  • 406 MHz Personal Locator Beacon transition (TC/NSS)
  • Public Safety Radio Interoperability Initiative (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada/NSS/Provinces/Territories)
  • Environment Canada departmental transformation (EC)
  • Evolution of the Canadian Coast Guard as a Special Operating Agency (CCG)
  • Canadian Forces Transformation (CF)
  • Enhancement to the SAR Mission Management System (CF)
  • Multi-jurisdictional exercises (various). For detailed financial tables of the National Search and Rescue Secretariat, refer to Section 4, page 109. For more general information of the Secretariat see www.nss.gc.ca
    
    Canadian Forces Grievance System Defence’s objective is to establish a CF Grievance System (CFGS) that can support the global lifecycle of all grievances throughout the CF. The CFGS will enable all involved parties to effectively deal with complaints at all levels, from the initial stages when a complaint can be resolved informally to the time a final grievance decision is rendered.
    
    Currently, the CF have no means of tracking the number and type of grievances dealt with within Defence. Furthermore, governance tools to support complaint and grievance resolution are limited, and those that do exist—such as the National Defence Act (NDA), Queen’s Regulations and Orders (QR&O), Canadian Forces Administrative Orders and handbooks—need updating. Without a functional CFGS, the CF will remain blind in regard to the global picture of complaints and grievances, and appropriate policy improvement will not be possible.
    
    In response, Defence will create a CFGS by:
    
    
    • establishing a registry and a CF-wide grievance system to track grievance decisions;
    • updating the NDA and QR&O, creating a related Defence Administrative Order and Directive (DAOD), and developing handbooks for commanding officers, grievers and advising officers;
    • establishing a case management communication reporting network; and
    • establishing a grievance stakeholder committee.
    For additional information on the Canadian Forces Grievance Board visit: www.cfgb-cgfc.gc.ca/process-e.php
    
    Official Languages
    
    In 2006, National Defence will produce a new Official Languages Strategic Plan covering the years 2007–2012. The aim of the Plan is to ensure that National Defence consistently employs linguistically qualified personnel to provide bilingual services to Canadian citizens, and internal services, leadership, instruction and supervision to CF and DND personnel where and when required by the Official Languages Act. The Plan will support the ongoing CF transformation and will result in second language training and employment policies being realigned to better support military and civilian operations and training. National Defence will also continue to implement the new Treasury Board Official Languages Policy Framework and the Public Service Official Languages Appointment Regulations. Once completed, the Official Languages Strategic Plan for 2007–2012 will include objectives to ensure that senior military officers that are EX equivalents (Colonels/Captains(Navy) and above) attain and maintain a bilingual ability of CBC or better. Initial focus will be upon the flag and general officer corps.
    
    Second language training within the CF is embedded in the CF training system and is funded in full by National Defence. The key institution associated with the military second language training is the Canadian Forces Language School. The School is responsible for coordinating the language-training curriculum for the CF and for providing a variety of courses ranging in duration from several weeks to one year. In addition, language-training centres are also set up on various bases located throughout the country to accommodate the language training requirements of military members.
    
    Of the Lieutenant-Colonels/Commanders selected during fiscal year 2006–2007 to be promoted to the rank of Colonel/Captain (Navy) during 2006, 70% of them are to attain a linguistic profile of CBC. They are given one year from the date of promotion to achieve the required profile. All officers selected to become commandants of CF (national-level) schools are to have a minimum linguistic profile of CBC, as of 2005. This policy, which applies primarily to Lieutenant-Colonels, has been complied with and will continue to be complied with during fiscal year 2006–2007.
    
    The Canada School of Public Service is responsible for providing second language training for employees with statutory requirements. Defence anticipates that demand for second language training will continue to increase as a direct result of the Official Languages Policy Framework and the Treasury Board Official Languages Policy. With imperative staffing the norm, second language skills are more crucial than ever in terms of operational needs, retention and career development.
    
    Employment Equity
    
    As part of the mandatory requirement under the Employment Equity Act, the CF reviewed all employment systems — including policies, practices and procedures — to identify employment barriers. As a result, the CF drafted a new Canadian Forces Employment Equity Plan that will be submitted for approval in September 2006, once the Canadian Human Rights Commission has approved the proposed new Work Force Analysis methodology.
    
    With respect to civilian employees, the principal DND Employment Equity (EE) issue has been the under-representation of visible minorities. In addition, DND civilian employees are under-represented, but to a lesser degree, by Aboriginal peoples and women.
    
    Key activities for the planning period will be to:
    
    
    • continue to implement the Corporate EE Action Plan, which will include conducting an in-depth analysis of diversity/EE training and education needs;
    • align EE with the DND recruiting strategy; and
    • ensure compliance with the Employment Equity Act by monitoring and measuring the progress of the Corporate EE Action Plan and meeting other reporting and central agency requirements including the People Component Management Accountability Framework.
    Representation goals, by employment equity group, for 2007–2008 are outlined in the table below.
    
    

    EMPLOYMENT EQUITY GROUP R	EPRESENTATION AS OF NOVEMBER 1, 2004 R	EPRESENTATION GOAL FOR 2007–2008*
    Women	7,951	8,220
    Persons with disabilities	1,172	816
    Aboriginal people	433	464
    Visible minorities	1,025	1,245

    Source: ADM (HR-Civ) Employment Equity Database, 1 November 2004
    Note: * Labour Market Availability (LMA) figures derived from the 2001 Canada Census

  Contribute to the Canadian Economy and Innovations

  International Research and Development Cooperation
  
  Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) is involved in numerous international collaborative activities with other nations. Such participation not only facilitates the exchange of new knowledge and expertise but also heightens Canada’s profile on the world stage. This ongoing collaboration is carried out under various international agreements such as:
  
  

  • the Technical Cooperation Program involving Canada, the UK, the US, New Zealand and Australia;
  • the NATO Research and Technology Organization;
  • the Technology Research and Development Projects agreement and Master Data Exchange arrangement with the US;
  • the Memorandum of Understanding concerning cooperative science and technology with the Netherlands; and
  • the Trilateral Technology Research and Development Projects agreement with the US and the UK.

  Contribute to Canadian Identity

  Defence proudly supports numerous projects that highlight the history and military heritage of the CF— a history that attests to the proficiency of the CF.

  Canada’s History, Heritage and Identity
  
  Through the work of its various component organizations, Defence has become an important part of Canada’s history, heritage and identity. It gathers and preserves written records and material artefacts, which together tell the story of the service of the CF at home and abroad. It helps give Canadians access to these materials by supporting CF museums, the military artist program, veterans’ pilgrimages, and the research and writing of heritage publications and commemorative and official histories. The latter, as Colonel C.P. Stacey observed 50 years ago, are produced to reflect the underlying consideration that governments need “a record of experience for future guidance” and that the Canadian public has the “assumed right ... after the lapse of a reasonable period of time, to authentic accounts of great national crises as revealed in the official records.” In fiscal year 2006–2007, plans and priorities related to military history and heritage will include the following:
  
  

  • recovering and ceremoniously burying 17 deceased airmen in Burma, France and the Netherlands;
  • marketing the Canadian Military History Gateway to classrooms, military researchers and the general public, while improving its content;
  • promulgating a revised CF accredited museums strategic framework to guide CF accredited museums for the next 10 years;
  • promulgating the official history of the Canadian navy, volume 2, part 2;
  • promulgating the official lineages of the artillery, armour and engineers; and
  • promulgating a sketch account of Aboriginal people and the Canadian military.

  National Defence Public Affairs will continue to support CF outreach activities in communities across Canada, and will continue to work with a broad spectrum of stakeholders, including other government departments and non-governmental organizations. By working with key presenters and target audiences, these outreach activities will promote greater public understanding of the CF's role, policies and mandate. The understanding and dialogue generated through these proactive efforts will lessen the need for reactive, crisis driven communications.
  
  Activities to engage and inform Canadians in fiscal year 2006–2007 will include:
  
  

  • stakeholder familiarization visits to CF installations in Canada and overseas;
  • speaking engagements by CF members to community organizations, schools and business associations; roundtable discussions and seminar presentations involving the academic and business communities; and
  • programming of national thematic days and weeks, such as National Veterans Week.
  • These initiatives will reach a large segment of Canada's population, familiarize the public with the CF, and reinforce messaging on Government of Canada and Defence priorities.

  Contribute to Youth and Education

  Cadet Instructor Cadre
  
  The Cadet Instructor Cadre (CIC) is a sub-component of the Reserve Force, consisting of officers who have undertaken, by the terms of their enrolment, to perform such military duty and training as may be required of them. It consists of officers whose primary duty is the supervision, administration and training of cadets 12 to 18 years of age. They ensure the cadets’ safety and welfare while developing in them the characteristics of leadership, citizenship, physical fitness and stimulating an interest in the sea, land and air activities of the CF.
  
  Canadian Cadet Program
  
  The Canadian Cadet Program is a federally sponsored national training program for youth between the ages of 12 and 18, conducted by Defence in partnership with the Navy Cadet League, the Army Cadet League and the Air Cadet League. The leagues recruit cadets, and organize accommodation and sponsors for each cadet unit. The CF provides personnel from the Regular Force, the Primary Reserve and more specifically members of the CIC. The CF also provides uniforms, some infrastructure and other support services such as airlift.
  
  Many young Canadians will benefit from cadet training from September to June. Many cadets are selected to attend one of the 25 Cadet Summer Training Centres located across the country either as trainees, or as Staff Cadets in leadership roles.
  
  Junior Canadian Rangers
  
  The Junior Canadian Rangers (JCR) Program is for youth between the ages of 12 to 18, and its aim is to provide a structured youth program through traditional, life and Ranger skills development activities. JCR Patrols are located in remote and isolated communities of Canada that have Canadian Rangers. The JCR Program is conducted in collaboration with local committees of adult community members who are in many cases supported directly by the band, hamlet or municipal council. The community provides a location for training, screens potential volunteers and instructors, and schedules training activities. The CF provide uniforms, training, financial and administrative support to the program, and CF Regular Force and Primary Reserve personnel assist delivery and evaluate JCR training during regular visits and field training exercises. The CF also provide Canadian Rangers with opportunities to serve as leaders, facilitators, supervisors and program developers.
  
  DND will continue to engage local, regional, provincial or territorial and federal agencies and organizations, and other government departments, specifically Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.
  
  

  Contribute to the International Community, in Accordance with Canadian Interests and Values

  Defence will provide financial contributions and personnel assignments to multilateral organizations (principally NATO and the UN) and contribute to multilateral development of good governance in regions and countries at risk. The CF will establish military activities with friendly nations, including exchanges, training and joint exercises.

  Meeting Commitments to International Organizations/Exchange

  Enhancing Industrial and Defence Relationships
  
  Defence will enhance Canada–US industrial and defence relationships by identifying and developing opportunities for collaborative materiel-related activities, such as DND’s participation in the US-led Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program.
  
  During fiscal year 2006–2007, the Materiel Group will advance Canadian participation in the JSF Program in two major areas. First, Defence will complete negotiations with the US, UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Turkey and Australia on the Production Sustainment and Follow-on Development Memorandum of Understanding, and will seek government approval for the next phase of the program. Second, Defence will negotiate industrial participation plans with each of the major prime contractors in the JSF Program from 2007 to 2046.
  
  Defence will also participate in various international legal working groups, through the work associations of the Office of the Judge Advocate General (JAG). The JAG protects the interests and values of Canadians by ensuring that the rule of law is upheld through the following mechanisms.
  
  

  • The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI): JAG legal officers participate in the PSI international working group on legal issues surrounding maritime proliferation security initiatives.
  • The NORAD Contingency Plan (CONPLAN): The Office of the JAG continues to provide requisite legal support to the ongoing review of the NORAD CONPLAN.
  • Computer Network Defence (CND): JAG lawyers participate in the AUSCANZUKUS⁷ working group on legal issues surrounding CND.

  Multilateral Organizations
  
  The United Nations remains a cornerstone of Canadian foreign and defence policy. Defence will provide personnel to peace support missions, particularly in positions that will act as force multipliers for the UN or increase the effectiveness of its deployed headquarters. DND will also continue to support other organizations, such as NATO, the European Union or coalitions of like-minded countries, to carry out peace support operations on the UN’s behalf.
  
  Canada’s security interests require a strong and vital NATO. Canada is currently the sixth-largest contributor to the Alliance’s budget and the third-largest contributor of funds and personnel to NATO’s Airborne Early Warning System (AWACS). The CF will continue to fill key military positions in NATO Headquarters. Significantly, General Raymond Henault, Canada’s previous Chief of the Defence Staff, is currently serving as Chairman of NATO’s Military Committee, the Alliance’s most senior military policy position. Defence will also continue to commit the CF and civilian personnel in support of NATO operations, particularly the Alliance’s International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
  
  Canada’s peacetime commitment to NATO involves the following contributions:
  
  

  • a ship to the Standing NATO Maritime Group (approx. 220 members);
  • some 114 members to the NATO AWACS;
  • approximately 223 members to various NATO headquarters;
  • funds to NATO’s common-funded military budget and Security Investment Program; and
  • ongoing participation in NATO military exercises.

  Moreover, Canada will provide additional peacetime support to NATO through a variety of bilateral training initiatives that give NATO allies access to training facilities in Canada. Defence will provide additional support through the NATO Flying Training in Canada Program and the Military Training Assistance Program (MTAP). The MTAP is Canada’s main contribution to NATO’s Partnership for Peace Program. The Counter-Terrorism Technology Centre (CTTC) at DRDC Suffield will continue to provide training to CF personnel, military personnel of NATO countries, and to civilian first-responders who are likely to be called upon to handle chemical, biological or radiological threats.
  
  In partnership with DFAIT, Defence will explore opportunities to improve co-operation with the European Union. Although it has been downsized significantly, the CF presence in Bosnia–Herzegovina as part of the EU military mission provides experience in EU crisis management operations.

  Advisory and Training Support to Other Nations

  Military Training Assistance Programme (MTAP)
  
  Defence diplomacy will remain an important part of National Defence’s efforts to contribute to international stability. Bilateral and multilateral contacts, including staff talks, ship and aircraft visits, training, personnel exchanges and participation in exercises are important elements of Canada’s foreign policy. They help Canada understand the security issues at stake in regions throughout the world while enhancing democracy and civilian control and accountability within other armed forces.
  
  The Military Training Assistance Programme (MTAP) is a key instrument of defence diplomacy that advances Canada’s contribution to international peace and security. MTAP training develops key security sector capacities in member countries while advancing Canadian defence interests and bilateral relations. In support of these aims, MTAP will continue to deliver language development, staff and professional, and peace support operations training.
  
  Defence also conducts law of armed conflict and operations law courses for the CF each year. A broad range of personnel from the Department of Justice Canada, DFAIT, foreign military organizations and non-government organizations also attend these courses.
  
  Defence will lead bilateral military staff talks or participate in DFAIT-led bilateral security consultations with key partners in the Americas, Europe and Asia. It is intended that Canada will host staff talks in 2007 with the United Kingdom, France, the Russian Federation and Germany. Defence will also coordinate an inter-departmental process on naval ship visits to ports in selected partner countries around the world.
  
  

  Executive and Corporate Services

  This section is not part of the three program activities and is often referred to as corporate “overhead.” It comprises the activities carried out by directorates that provide corporate governance and strategic management activities. The intent is to phase out this category as the PAA structure matures.

  Safety Programs

  The General Safety Program is one of several active safety programs within DND and the CF. These programs and their associated offices of primary interest are enumerated in Defence Administrative Order and Directive 2007-0, Safety.

  DND will employ a revised, strengthened safety governance structure to enhance synergy among its safety programs, thereby reducing duplication and inefficiencies.

  Fiscal year 2006–2007 will see continued and improved compliance with the Canadian Labour Code, Part II, in a number of areas, including hazard analysis and risk management.

  Nuclear Safety

  The Minister is responsible for establishing and monitoring an effective, credible and efficient self-regulatory regime for the control and safe use of ionizing radiation sources in DND and the CF. The Risk-Based Control (RBC) Regime will ensure that DND/CF activities are undertaken and managed with due consideration for risk versus adequate control, safety measures and effort. For additional information, see the annual reports on nuclear safety.

  Enhance Modern Management

  Defence supports intelligent, forward-looking, effective and efficient management practices consistent with Government of Canada standards. It is currently tracking performance in this area using the following five indicators.

  a. Governance and Strategic Direction

  Using the DND/CF Performance Management Framework, which includes the Management, Resources and Results Structure (MRRS), the Program Activity Architecture (PAA) and the Balanced Scorecard, ensures that there is an end-to-end governance structure that links the DND/CF mission, strategic direction, decision-making, plans and priorities to the strategic results and outcomes. This Performance Management Framework is being cascaded throughout the organization and Defence is seeing early successes in a variety of Senior Management organizations, such as the following.

  • Maritime Command will maintain its support of Continuous Improvement (CI) in the formations. Headquarters staff will continue to provide advice, assistance and co-ordination for CI initiatives by applying management tools such as the National Quality Excellence Framework and the Balanced Scorecard, CI training, benchmarking, best practices research and knowledge management.
  • Land Force Command (LFC) will continue to use its Strategic Operations and Resources Directive (SORD) in conjunction with the army five year plan to link LFC’s mission, strategic direction, plans and priorities, resource allocations and performance measurement to generate and sustain combat capable, multipurpose land forces to meet Canada’s defence objectives. The progress will be measured through LFC’s Performance Management Framework with direction, tasks, and resources reassigned as situations change.
  • Air Command continues to develop its Balanced Scorecard to make it a meaningful performance measurement tool to help the air force refine its priorities and resource allocations. The newly implemented Air Force Business Plan Action Plan Tracker and Business Plan Quarterly Review also help the air force accomplish assigned tasks within allocated resources. In addition, the air force is well positioned with its Air Force Capability Structure to fully integrate the new Program Activity Architecture. From a strategic perspective, the Business Plan articulates specific air force tasks and priorities.
  • The Materiel Group has recently completed a restructuring that saw the creation of a focused group strategic and business planning team within the Chief of Staff Assistant Deputy Minister (Materiel). This effort also saw the full integration of DND’s materiel acquisition and support (MA&S) policy, systems and requirements responsibilities into the new Director General Materiel Systems and Supply Chain (DGMSSC) division.

  b. Risk Management

  Integrated Risk Management (IRM) within Defence is progressing. The Vice Chief of the Defence Staff (VCDS) approved the DND/CF IRM Policy and Guidelines for release in October 2005. The Assistant Deputy Minister (Public Affairs) also released an Internal Communications Approach document addressing IRM implementation. A draft IRM Implementation Plan for Defence is also nearing completion.

  In 2005, Defence conducted an environmental study of strategic risks, including Senior Management interviews. The document Strategic Risk Areas in National Defence outlined the results. Defence will further refine this document after reviewing the Senior Management strategic assessments completed in November 2005, using as references the IRM documents previously described. Defence is also integrating IRM into the Performance Management Framework (PMF), which will be the main portal for reporting risk information. Further efforts to integrate IRM into other strategic processes within Defence will continue throughout fiscal year 2006–2007. These efforts will include long-term work to develop and implement an effective IRM framework across all DND/CF Materiel Acquisition and Support (MA&S) activities.

  IRM training is continuing across Defence. In addition, it is developing an online RiskSmart course, scheduled for implementation in the winter of 2006. Additional IRM orientation training will be offered at DND/CF management schools.

  The next crucial milestone for IRM in Defence is the development of an Operational Risk Profile (ORP) by the end of fiscal year 2006–2007. Once completed, the ORP will help decision-makers consider risk factors from an organizational perspective.

  Each year, Defence will continue to apply risk management techniques that reflect historical DND funding trends. Continued application of a prudent risk management strategy that incorporates reasonable levels of over-programming in combination with identified off-ramps is essential to its ultimate success in achieving the mandate.

  c. Stewardship and Comptrollership

  he empowering aspect of the modern comptrollership agenda for commanders is that it demands that comptrollers and financial support tools be results oriented with defined performance measurement metrics to aid in the decision making process through the integration of performance measurement and financial information systems. Modern comptrollership will provide managers with integrated financial and non-financial performance information, a sound approach to risk management, appropriate control systems and a shared set of values and ethics. Key to progressing modern comptrollership in Defence is having the right personnel in the right jobs with the right skills set.

  In response to the Government Action Plan on strengthening public sector management, the directive on “Strengthening Accountability and Comptrollership in the Department of National Defence” provided clear guidance and direction to managers and leaders at all levels on management practices and controls, stewardship of resources, probity and fiduciary responsibilities. There are many initiatives that are underway to strengthen accountability and comptrollership. Some of these include:

  • Financial Administration Act (FAA) Section 33 compliance activities were strengthened through the development of a 20 person FAA Compliance Cell that has been functioning since September 2004. The Cell conducts pre-payment reviews on all transactions over $250K, all transactions considered sensitive or high risk, and a post payment sampling on all transactions.
  • A quarterly FAA compliance report is provided to all Level One organizations. All comptrollers meet regularly with their resource managers to review FAA Sections 32 and 34 certification responsibilities. All resource managers are encouraged to complete the Resource Managers’ Course, available through the Defence Wide Area Network and the Internet. Delegated signing authorities are reviewed annually and the Expenditure Management Course is mandatory for all personnel with financial signing authority.
  • Commitment Accounting is mandatory for invoice processing. The overall goal is to commit all planned expenditures, using a phased-in approach. Beginning in fiscal year 2006–2007, it will be mandatory to commit Salary Wage Envelope, National Procurement activities, Work Breakdown Structure activities and expenditures for which a payment will be made to a supplier/contractor; and
  • Work continues on accrual accounting implementation. A three-year action plan has been established and monitored by an ADM level Interdepartmental Steering Committee on Asset and Inventory Valuation.

  Over the fiscal year 2006–2007 planning period, Defence expects to implement the remaining recommendations using strategies focused on the enhancement of training programs, organizational changes, resource re-alignment and enhanced policy direction.

  d. Accountability

  A key objective for Defence is to enhance management excellence by implementing Strengthening Accountability and Comptrollership in National Defence and TBS’s Management Accountability Framework (MAF) and by focusing on strengthening accountability and controls in the areas of financial management and contracting.

  The Assistant Deputy Minister (Materiel) is accountable for DND’s Materiel Acquisition and Support (MA&S) process. While many organizations across the country execute the process, the Materiel Group develops and promulgates MA&S policies and procedures, provides functional guidance and support, and provides the appropriate level of oversight to ensure process integrity. The Materiel Group will again issue functional planning guidance to all senior management organizations to ensure that DND executes its MA&S process in the most efficient and effective manner.

  Furthermore, Defence is increasing its efforts to ensure compliance at all levels with the Financial Administration Act. It is upgrading financial accounting and reporting systems to improve visibility and control. It will also improve the effectiveness of information sharing by implementing the new information management strategy and governance, and enhance internal communications.

  e. Results and Performance

  Performance management is a key component of the overall business planning cycle. Defence will ensure that the DND/CF Performance Management Framework (PMF) provides relevant information on internal, service and program results; that the information is available for decision-making and public reporting; and that the information is balanced and factual. The PMF system has matured well in DND and senior managers routinely discuss issues raised through the PMF system, in structured Balanced Scorecard discussions. The semi-annual internal performance management report continues to be a cornerstone for communication within the senior leadership. Defence is cascading this structure and format down to other levels within DND and the CF. Senior Management organizations are reporting successes in using this framework, such as the following.

  • The navy’s strategic PMF continues to evolve to ensure its alignment to strategy and to the identification of relevant strategic measures. The Maritime Staff Management Team is conducting a case study to develop performance measurement report guidelines, using actual fiscal year 2004–2005 performance as measured against the Maritime Business Plan. This process will be refined and Maritime Capability Planning Guidance 2007–2008 will provide more specific guidance on how Maritime Command will report on its plan and progress.
  • The army Performance Measurement system is the tool used by Land Force Command (LFC) to monitor and report on the overall health of the entire army program. This system, in place since 2000, is based on a modified, automated balanced scoreboard methodology. The success of the army PM system will be measured in part with the quality of input to the DND/CF PMF and how well it meets the ongoing decision support needs of army commanders.
  • The Balanced Scorecard is the air force’s primary performance management tool. It also includes a strategy map. The Balanced Scorecard enables the air force to clarify its vision and strategy and translate them into operational objectives. The Balanced Scorecard, along with the strategy map, will facilitate communication of strategic intent and assign responsibility and accountability for air force strategic objectives.
  • The improved PMF for the Materiel Group will improve business and performance management processes and will enable the Group to assess the capacity and readiness of the organization to meet its obligations; determine whether corporate strategies are being met; evaluate the effectiveness of the organization’s operations; and determine the ongoing effectiveness of the organization’s use of resources.
  • The Human Resources (Civilian) Group has maintained a Performance Measurement Framework for the last three years. Measures have focused on volume and speed in the areas of staffing, classification and staff relations. The framework has helped to identify areas for improvement of civilian human resources processes. This PMF will continue to be developed to cover other areas of the Balanced Scorecard.

  Effective performance measurement will provide information for planning and control in the organization, and will ensure that the direction, efforts and results of the organization are aligned.

  f. Audits and Evaluations

  Internal audit

  Internal audit, which is provided within the DND/CF by the Chief Review Services (CRS) organization, is principally charged with providing sufficient and timely assurance and advisory services on key DND/CF management systems, projects, processes and practices. Assurance services are scoped to address risk management strategies, management control frameworks and information for decision-making, reporting and accountability.

  Key internal audits expected to be completed in 2006–2007 include: Audit of Military Moves, Audit of Transportation Management, Audit of Inventory Management – Stocktaking, as well as several audits related to selected services contracts. In addition, CRS anticipates initiating additional audits related to the Financial Information Strategy, as well as the capital equipment program.

  A key goal of CRS during 2006–2007 will be to move forward with the expansion of internal audit through the recruitment of additional internal auditors.

  Program Evaluation

  The evaluation function in DND and the CF will continue to focus on conducting evaluations of key operational programs. These evaluations will provide information on value for money, program rationale and effectiveness. In addition, evaluations are a key tool of accountability, providing information on program governance and results.

  In 2006–2007, Defence will conduct evaluations to support transformation of the CF and focus on people, technology, ways of conducting operations and ways of thinking. Given that it is an iterative and continuous process, evaluation can play an important role in ensuring that it is achieving the desired results.

  A list of Audit and Evaluation work planned for fiscal year 2006–2007 can be found in Section 3:

  http://www.vcds.forces.ca/dgsp/00native/rep-pub/ddm/rpp/rpp06-07/j-document-eng.asp

  Completed reports can be found on the CRS website at the following link: http://www.forces.ca/crs/rpt/reports-eng.asp.

  Labour Relations

  The Labour Relations Program develops labour relations policies, programs and tools to enhance positive labour-management relations; oversees and monitors the implementation of these policies and programs; and provides expert advice, guidance and interpretation concerning labour relations matters, such as collective agreements, discipline, consultation, DND policies and programs, grievances, harassment prevention and resolution, and human rights.

  In addition, it manages and monitors civilian grievances, human rights complaints, and collective bargaining and strike management. Key activities for the planning period include the following:

  • the continuing promotion of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in complaint resolution;
  • the negotiation of essential services agreements with bargaining agents; and
  • manage the implementation of the PSEA with respect to political activities of DND employees, a task that will include developing departmental procedures and monitoring mechanisms.

  a. Civilian Recourse Registry

  DND will establish the Civilian Recourse Registry to manage, administer and monitor labour relations and classification grievances and staffing complaints in an integrated fashion. Key activities for the planning period include the following:

  • establish the organization;
  • revise processes for handling labour relations grievances (including deployments), staffing complaints and Deputy Head investigations outlined in the new Public Service Labour Relations Act and PSEA; and
  • develop a communication strategy for employees and managers.

  b. Concurrent Jurisdiction

  The Office of the Judge Advocate General is working together with the Provost Marshal to develop policy guidance for military police investigators and prosecutors addressing issues of concurrent jurisdiction between CF and civilian investigative and prosecutorial authorities. This project is directly linked to the passage of Bill C-15A, which amends the National Defence Act to permit input of service offender information into the Canadian Police Information Centre database. The completion date for this project is October 2006.

  c. Office of the Ombudsman for DND and the CF

  The Ombudsman’s Office is a direct source of information, referral and education for the men and women of DND and the CF. Its role is to help individuals use existing channels of assistance or redress when they have complaints or concerns. In addition, the Ombudsman may investigate and report publicly on matters affecting the welfare of members and employees of DND and the CF, and other people falling within his jurisdiction. Complainants will also be given easier access to the Office’s services by improving web sites and conducting outreach to troops on bases and overseas.

  The ultimate goal is to contribute to substantial and long-lasting improvements to the overall quality of life of military members and their families by:

  • Identifying and investigating systemic risks and issues affecting military members and their families (such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and environmental exposure), and making recommendations to address them;
  • Acting as a last-resort mechanism to look into individual complaints, and, where appropriate, intervene to promote fair treatment of military members;
  • Raising public awareness about issues that affect the welfare of members of the defence community; and
  • Serving as a resource and model within the federal government and other countries on the effective use of the Ombudsman concept.

  Defence Public Affairs

  National Defence Public Affairs will continue to provide strategic direction and guidance for DND/CF communications, including the DND/CF Strategic Communications Plan, communications planning for corporate documents and memorandum to Cabinet, internal and external communications of contingency planning for domestic crisis and natural disasters. Defence Public Affairs will work closely with other government departments and agencies in its day-to-day operations, to manage specific issues and crises to ensure the Canadian public receives comprehensive and timely information on CF operations at home and abroad.

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