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Politics, Procurement Practices, and Procrastination:
the  CH-124 Sea King  Helicopter Replacement Saga


Stephen Priestley reviews DND’s quarter-century long ( and running ) struggle to replace Canada’s CH-124 Sea King Shipboard Helicopters.


Part 1  —  the MHP in the Current Political Landscape

Part 2  —  In the Beginning: the Search for a Sea King Replacement

Part 3  —  “Slide!” ...  Air Command Listens to its ‘Power Animal’

Part 4  —  ASW Rebranded:  the New Shipboard Aircraft Project

Sidebar:  Obsessing Over Size?  or  Just Missing the Point?

Part 5  —  Open for Business:  the Contenders for the ‘NSA’

Part 6  —  Open for Business:  the Contenders for the ‘NSA’ (Cont)

Part 7  —  Narrowing the Field and Racing for the Finishing Line

Part 8  —  “...‘The Effects of a Permanent Income On Thought’...”

Part 9  —  Widening the ‘New Shipboard Aircraft’ Requirement

Part 10 –  NSA Contracts ... ‘Buy Now! Do Not Pay Until 1995!’

Part 11 –  Out With the Old,  ...   the 1993 Federal Election

Part 12 –  Going ‘Green’:  An Unexamined Option for the NSA

Part 13 –  Running Out of Time, Options, and Alternatives

Sidebar:  Liberals Try Thinking Small With a Sea-Going Griffon

Part 14 –  the 1994 Defence White Paper and SAR Helicopters

Part 15 –  “Once more unto the breach” —  the MHP Candidates

Part 16 –  “We had joy, we had fun; we had Sea Kings in the Sun”

Part 17 –  “... Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things ...”

Part 18 –  “... Some shall be pardoned,  and some punishèd ...”


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