I'll defend,
Lets stop waiting for the solution to our procurement woes rely on:
- A majority of Canadians becoming highly interested in the state of the CF in levels unseen since...WW2?
- We can organise a centralized body charged with efficiently and apolitically controlling procurement that will not require any organisational infrastructure or humans to run it.
- Gov't will wake up tomorrow and push through a whole-sale redesign of the CAF org structure, fix an arguably broken leadership culture, rebuild the entire Reserves, ease recruiting and retention issues.
The best of the best GOFOs can get hired as expert advisors/board members by the gov't commission/agency. In order to control and properly observe something is to have the right eyes on. We have a complicated system. Hire-out an expensive Canadian accounting firm to organise and set corporate governance for this new body in order to save us $Billions, years, and cuts into contracts. This external gov't body would be assigned to reorg procurement in a setting that limit the number of hands in the pie, keep projects apolitical. Move the focus from politically-motivated purchases to an arms-length independant body.
Trial this body to only handle the NSS file, and make future determinations on building what the RCN/CCG needs, if they can be built reasonably in Canada, what MOTS design, and which yard is best-timed to build it.
We have a glut of GO/FOs that's well documented. Sub-delegate these existing positions to lower ranks until you're happy. Reorg their staff/infrastructure as needed. Move the now surplus GOFOs into cushy academia positions before they to retire. They can share their expertise with academia and our allies or perhaps offered cash to retire.
Heck, public opinion would side with any gov't looking to dramatically shake-up the DND/CF at the expense of these GOFOs in the name of efficiency. If any pushback occurs, simply compare the number of GOFOs to the numbers our friends have.