On this week’s episode, Wendy Gilmour, Jeff Tasseron, and Ugurhan Berkok joined us to discuss several key aspects surrounding the creation of the Defence Investment Agency (DIA), offering insights into its intended role in Canada’s defence strategy. They examine how the agency aims to streamline the procurement process, gaps in Canada’s defence industrial capacity, challenges in building the necessary domestic capacity, the development of a defence industrial strategy, the potential for increased integration with Europe’s defence industrial base through Rearm Europe, and the challenges in setting up the DIA and avoiding disruption of existing procurement processes and projects.
Wendy Gilmour is the CDA Institute’s Vice Chair of the Board of Directors and former NATO Assistant Secretary for Defence Investment, Jeff Tasseron is CAE’s Director of Strategy and Innovation, and Dr. Ugurhan Berkok is an Associate Professor of Economics at Royal Military College.
