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Defence Combat and Support Operations

Program code
CQA00 (ND)
Core responsibility
Defence Operations and Services Improve Stability and Security, and Promote Canadian Interests and Values.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2014-15 – 2017-18

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2014-15. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2014-152015-162016-172017-18Defence Combat and Support Operations 2014-15: $1.23BDefence Combat and Support Operations 2015-16: $1.36BDefence Combat and Support Operations 2016-17: $1.35BDefence Combat and Support Operations 2017-18: $1.72BDefence Combat and Support Operations
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Defence Combat and Support OperationsThis program2014-15 – 2017-18$5.66B

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2017-18Spending $1.72B, against $1.35B in 2016-17 (+28%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2014-15: $1.23B2014-152015-16: $1.36B2015-162016-17: $1.35B2016-172017-18: $1.72B2017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2014-15—$1.23B
2015-16—$1.36B
2016-17—$1.35B
2017-18—$1.72B

Employees (FTEs)

2014-15: 7,2592014-15: 6,6392014-152015-16: 6,5712015-16: 6,4732015-162016-17: 6,7992016-17: 6,4182016-172017-18: 7,7632017-18: 7,4652017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2014-157,2596,639
2015-166,5716,473
2016-176,7996,418
2017-187,7637,465

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.