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Defence Ready Force Element Production

Program code
CQC00 (ND)
Core responsibility
Defence Remains Continually Prepared to Deliver National Defence and Defence Services in Alignment with 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 Ready Force Element Production 2014-15: $3.28BDefence Ready Force Element Production 2015-16: $3.4BDefence Ready Force Element Production 2016-17: $3.46BDefence Ready Force Element Production 2017-18: $4.55BDefence Ready Force Element Production
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 Ready Force Element ProductionThis program2014-15 – 2017-18$14.7B

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 $4.55B, against $3.46B in 2016-17 (+32%).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: $3.28B2014-152015-16: $3.4B2015-162016-17: $3.46B2016-172017-18: $4.55B2017-18
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—$3.28B
2015-16—$3.4B
2016-17—$3.46B
2017-18—$4.55B

Employees (FTEs)

2014-15: 28,4642014-15: 27,0842014-152015-16: 28,5162015-16: 27,2422015-162016-17: 28,4862016-17: 27,2992016-172017-18: 28,0292017-18: 26,7472017-18
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
2014-1528,46427,084
2015-1628,51627,242
2016-1728,48627,299
2017-1828,02926,747

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.