{"id":486012,"date":"2026-02-19T20:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486012\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:01:09","slug":"ottawa-making-progress-on-defence-purchasing-reforms-fuhr-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486012\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa making progress on defence purchasing reforms, Fuhr says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Ottawa is now well into its defence procurement reforms and plans to introduce changes to make it easier for small and medium-sized businesses to navigate government contracting.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to Secretary of State for defence procurement Stephen Fuhr, who\u2019s overseeing changes to how the federal government buys equipment for the military.<\/p>\n<p>He says the Defence Investment Agency, an new office created to streamline the procurement process, will soon become a stand-alone agency and a \u201cone-stop shop\u201d for industry.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently housed within a government department but the government plans to introduce legislation to change that this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said earlier this week the government should be cutting bureaucracy, not adding more of it.<\/p>\n<p>Fuhr says the government has picked up the pace on military purchasing already and is shaving years off its submarine procurement.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 19, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Ottawa is now well into its defence procurement reforms and plans to introduce changes to make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-486012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}