I also wanted to note from my meetings with the French defence department that they have their inter-ministerial committee at the front end. What they told me was that the reason their procurement works as well as it does is that they iron out things early on, rather than defence doing a great job in the beginning and going down a certain track and then every other minister and deputy minister having their fingers in the pie.
Has there been any discussion about the potential for getting that collaborative approach at the front end so that the buy-in has happened before you're too far down the track?