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SECRET / SECRET
TB no.: 837119

EXISTING AND RELATED PROGRAMS/PROJECTS:

There are no existing programs within the Service related to the proposals in this submission.

ANALYSIS:

Currently, the Service uses inefficient and labour-intensive data-processing and analysis systems. Approximately 70 Service employees collect and process intelligence information at more than 25 foreign stations from approximately 22,500 messages per year, and this figure does not included the high volume of extremely sensitive traffic from the Washington station. The new network will allow the Service to provide decision-makers with crucual intelligence information more efficiently and in real-time.

TBS believes that this project is well-managed and, once completed, will deliver considerable benefits to the Government in the more timely and efficient use of information. Actual costs for Phase I are below the estimates provided in 2011 and the prototype has been successfully deployed in two foreign stations.

However, TB ministers should note that the estimate for the overall project cost has increased from the 2011 estimate by approximately $3M. The increase is mainly due to the implementation of higher information management security standards stemming from the Delisle (the sale of classified material to a foreign government) and Snowden cases (the disclosure of classified material in the public domain). As a member of the Five-Eyes intelligence community (Canada, USA, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand), the illegal disclosure of classified material in Canada or in any one of the Five-Eyes partners has Significant impacts on how sensitive material is handled and protected by all the Five-Eyes members.

TBS is satisfied that the extra costs related to the higher security standards do not involve an increase in Scope and are justified as the Service could not have anticipated these requirements when they put forward their indicative cost estimates in early 2011.

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SECRET / SECRET
TB no.: 837119

CONTEXT:

(DETAILS SUPPRESSED IN PRESENTATION)

PROPOSAL:

1. Effective Project Approval is being sought to extend the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's secure corporate network environment to its foreign stations valued at a substantive cost estimate of $20,626,549, inclusive of Harmonized Sales Taxes (HST) of $2,061,483, which represents an increase of $3,055,211 (including HST) from the amount approved in the Preliminary Project Approval.

2. Expenditure authority is being sought at a substantive cost estimate of $10,536,377, inclusive of HST of $909,085, for the implementation, deployment and ongoing support to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's foreign missions.

BACKGROUND:

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CONFIDENCE OF THE QUEEN'S PRIVY COUNCIL
DOCUMENT CONFIDENTIEL DU CONSEIL PRIVÉ DE LA REINE

Treasury Board of Canada (COAT OF ARMS) Conseil du Trésor du Canada

Case Type ... Investment Plans and Project Approvals
Overall Risk Assessment ... Low-Medium
TB No. ... 837119
Designation/Classification ... Secret
Meeting Date ... February 6, 2014
Department(s) ... Public Safety Canada (Canadian Security Intelligence Service)

PRÉCIS

SUMMARY:

Cabinet Approval ... Cabinet Committee on Priorities and Planning, June 8, 2010
Funding Approval: ... Budget 2010

The Minister of Public Safety, as Minister responsible for the Canadian Intelligence Service, is seeking Project Approval to extend the Service's secure corporate network environment to its foreign stations as well as expenditure authority of approximately $11 million over three years for the implementation and deployment to the Service's foreign stations. The project is funded from the Service's existing reference levels.

Treasury Board provided Preliminary Project Approval in March 2011 at a total indicative cost estimate of $17.6 million over six years. The current substantive cost estimate of the project is $20.6 million, representing an increase of approximately $3 million over the 2011 estimate. The increase is due largely to increased information security requirements to address recent unlawful disclosures of classified material (i.e. Delisle, Snowden) since Treasury Board provided Preliminary Project Approval in 2011.

Currently, the Service uses inefficient and labour-intensive data-processing and analysis systems to process and report intelligence information obtained at its foreign stations. These outdated processes

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