On this episode of Defence Deconstructed, Ian Brodie takes stock on the current state of procurement initiatives in Canada with Nancy Tremblay, Simon Page, and Richard Shimooka.

This episode is a recording from our Procurement conference, which took place on November 25, 2024 in Ottawa. This conference was made possible thanks to the support of the Department of National Defence’s MINDS Program, our strategic sponsors Lockheed Martin Canada, General Dynamics and Hanwha Defence and Ocean, and our conference sponsors the Business Council of Canada, Raytheon, L3Harris Technologies, the Royal Norwegian Embassy to Canada, Amazon Web Services, Davie, and CAE.

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Speakers' bios:

Dr. Ian Brodie is CGAI's Program Director

Nancy Tremblay is the Assistant Deputy Minister of Materiel at DND

Simon Page is Assistant Deputy Minister of Defence and Marine Procurement Branch at PSPC

Richard Shimooka is a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Defence Deconstructed is brought to you by Irving Shipbuilding

Music Credits: Drew Phillips

Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine