About Us
The Materiel Group is the single, central service provider and program authority for materiel for the Canadian Forces (CF) and the Department. ADM(Materiel) is accountable to the Deputy Minister (DM) for materiel's full life cycle - from acquisition, through maintenance and support, to disposal. This is accomplished by:
- developing and managing the materiel acquisition and support business processes and systems for the CF and the Department;
- contributing to the development of both capital acquisition support plans and National Procurement (NP) support plans (for maintenance) and managing the budgets of these two corporate accounts;
- managing equipment projects;
- maintaining overall design authority of CF equipment and systems and providing certain aspects of engineering and maintenance, repair and overhaul;
- disposing of equipment; and
- overseeing defence materiel relations with other departments, governments and international organizations.
Materiel Group Statistics
- Employs 3,450 civilian and military (60/40 split)
- Manages an annual budget of $1.7B for capital expenditures and $2.0B for maintenance and upgrades
- Oversees $26B in equipment assets
Materiel Group Vision
The Materiel Group vision is to be a highly motivated organization that provides value-added materiel acquisition and support (MA&S) to the CF and the Department.
Materiel Group Mission
The mission of the Materiel Group is to provide quality, timely, and efficient MA&S to the CF and the Department.
