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Jeffrey F. Collins

Policy report

Overcoming ‘boom and bust’? Analyzing national shipbuilding plans in Canada and Australia

This paper analyzes the largest and most expensive procurement projects undertaken by either country, Canada’s $73 billion (estimated) National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS), launched in 2010, and Australia’s A$90 billion Naval Shipbuilding Plan (NSP), launched in 2017. Each project represents an attempt to implement a rational...