Federal spending by National Defence

1,110 records totalling $2,527,129,435.07 CAD, from official Government of Canada open data.

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Where the money flows

Planned vs. actual spending

What Parliament authorised this organization to spend versus what it actually spent, across all its votes. Source: Public Accounts of Canada (via GC InfoBase). This covers the organization's entire budget, not just the grants and contracts listed below.

Fiscal year Authorised Spent Used
2024-2025 $34,711,513,470 $33,924,795,250 97.7%
2023-2024 $34,945,077,835 $33,469,476,787 95.8%
2022-2023 $28,501,032,979 $26,930,160,095 94.5%
2021-2022 $26,635,209,189 $24,126,144,961 90.6%
2020-2021 $28,053,562,425 $26,827,037,837 95.6%
2019-2020 $23,776,955,012 $22,839,438,337 96.1%
2018-2019 $22,105,709,253 $21,615,941,912 97.8%
2017-2018 $23,577,936,795 $22,877,086,721 97.0%
2016-2017 $19,470,364,449 $18,606,153,529 95.6%
2015-2016 $19,997,410,380 $18,666,073,243 93.3%

Did it deliver? (2024-2025 results report)

Every department sets measurable performance targets and reports against them. Source: Departmental Results Reports via GC InfoBase — the department's own self-reported scorecard.

81

of 214 targets met

89

targets not met

44

not yet measurable or unavailable

See missed targets
  • % deviation of average daily meal cost from the standard allowance

    Target: — · Actual: 15.3

  • % of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction relative to a 2005 baseline

    Target: — · Actual: 39.1

  • % of Canadian Armed Forces families who feel they meet the challenges of military life

    Target: — · Actual: 81.7

  • % of goods and services contracts that are awarded within established performance targets

    Target: — · Actual: 93.9

  • % of the target Canadian youth population that participates in Cadets and Junior Canadian Rangers

    Target: — · Actual: 1.89

York University $1,499,578.00
National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Innovation Networks
FY 2019-2020
Canada

Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Autonomous systems for defence and security: Trust and barriers to adoption. Defence Research and D...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Innovation Networks
FY 2019-2020
Canada

The Micro-net will develop new methods to support the systematic design of mixed initiative systems (MIS) for effective collaboration between humans and autonomous systems (AS). This project will deve...

McGill University $1,499,577.00
National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Innovation Networks
FY 2019-2020
Canada

Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Autonomous systems for defence and security: Trust and barriers to adoption. Defence Research and D...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security
FY 2019-2020
Canada

The project aims to develop advanced high strength materials in the form of nanostructured and high-entropy alloys, with enhanced mechanical properties, to improve the resistance to damage from high v...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Innovation Netowrks
FY 2019-2020
Canada

The ever-increasing need to improve the effectiveness of Canadian military missions through increased protection and survivability of personnel and platforms urgently requires the development of advan...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security
FY 2019-2020
Canada

This Project will identify critical elements for establishing trust, airworthiness, confidence, and cyber-security assurance between CANUMV assets and humans.

National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Innovation Networks
FY 2019-2020
Canada

The project aims to develop new scientific foundations to overcome technological and human-machine interaction barriers for secure, trustworthy, reliable and assured Cooperative Autonomous Networked U...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security
FY 2019-2020
Canada

The Micro-net aims to develop trustworthy technologies for autonomous human-machine systems (HMS) to support combat operations. Specifically, applications for autonomous decision support, real-time ba...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Innovation Netowrks
FY 2019-2020
Canada

The AutoDefence Micro-net research objective is to develop trustworthy technologies for autonomous human-machine systems applied in dynamic and contested defence environments. To address the above pr...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Innovation Networks
FY 2019-2020
Canada

Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Autonomous systems for defence and security: Trust and barriers to adoption. Defence Research and D...

National Defence | Défense nationale
CCG Marine Operation & Response TPP-Contributions
FY 2023-2024
Canada

The overarching goal (purpose) is to support enhancements in marine safety and marine environmental protection in Canadian waters, while embracing the concepts of codevelopment and sustainable economi...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program
FY 2022-2023
Canada

Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Faster, Stronger, More Secure: Advancing 5G capabilities and concepts for defence and security. The...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program
FY 2022-2023
Canada

Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Faster, Stronger, More Secure: Advancing 5G capabilities and concepts for defence and security. The...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Innovation Networks
FY 2022-2023
Canada

Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Faster, Stronger, More Secure: Advancing 5G capabilities and concepts for defence and security. Def...

York University $1,480,884.00
National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security
FY 2019-2020
Canada

The Micro-net aims to explore technical and operational issues associated with developing trust within human-robot interactions as it specifically relates to trust between asset-centric personnel and...

York University $1,480,884.00
National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Innovation Netowrks
FY 2019-2020
Canada

The SENTRYNET project explores technical and operational issues associated with developing trust within human-robot interactions. It provides an opportunity to explore trust in two critical domains: t...

York University $1,480,884.00
National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Innovation Networks
FY 2019-2020
Canada

Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Autonomous systems for defence and security: Trust and barriers to adoption. Defence Research and D...

McMaster University $1,479,441.00
National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security
FY 2019-2020
Canada

This Micro-net aims to identify, assess, and quantify underlying sources of modelling uncertainty in Autonomous Medical Advisory Systems (AMAS) for building trust in Joint Cognitive System (JCSs).

McMaster University $1,479,441.00
National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Innovation Networks
FY 2019-2020
Canada

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are key to medical support and care in remote and austere environments. However, they introduce two primary challenges for trust and adoption, wh...

McMaster University $1,479,441.00
National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Innovation Networks
FY 2019-2020
Canada

Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Autonomous systems for defence and security: Trust and barriers to adoption. The Department of Nati...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program
FY 2022-2023
Canada

Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Faster, Stronger, More Secure: Advancing 5G capabilities and concepts for defence and security. The...

MJMG Holdings Inc. $1,331,809.00
National Defence | Défense nationale
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program - Innovation Netowrks
FY 2020-2021
Canada

This project is to develop and qualify a rapid Point-of-Care diagnostic test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19. The test will be run on a portable reader that will be capable of operating...

National Defence | Défense nationale
Capital Assistance Program
FY 2022-2023
Canada

St-Jean will construct the improved pump station.

National Defence | Défense nationale
Vancouver Principles Contribution Program
FY 2019-2020
Canada

Contribution funding will support basic and applied evidence-based research, including the development of concepts, capturing lessons learned and the identification of best practices for the preventio...