I thank the member for the question, Mr. Chair.
First of all, the Department of National Defence has a database in which it keeps all information on contracts. However, given that it engages in secret activities, some sectors of the department do not use that database.
We therefore found the other contracts through a manual search because they were not in that database.
It is for reasons of security that we don't put all of the contracts in that database. There are certain groups that do work that we can't disclose publicly because of a security risk. That's the reason we found those after the fact, and I apologize for not finding them earlier.