Can I suggest to you, Mr. Ferguson, that it really doesn't? My colleague Mr. Byrne has been on this issue of the departments not accepting these conclusions. In fact, what I find is that the recommendation only perpetuates what I believe to be a fiction. We actually don't already know what the appropriate life cycle cost estimates are. I mean, it perpetuates the fiction that the information is not already readily available.
When the government promises to table reports coming out of the United States and the Department of Defense, those things are already publicly available. If you do a little Google alert on your BlackBerry for F-35, you will be swamped with information and life cycle costs coming out of very reliable U.S. government departments that are doing these things constantly.
Why, in light of the department's refusal to accept the conclusions, doesn't the Auditor General take that one step further and make recommendations based on the conclusions you found?