National Defence committee  The statement of operational requirement for a purchase of this scale is very large and complex. Often, when one does look at one of these, there will be, through third parties, an opportunity to improve that statement of requirement.

National Defence committee  I think what we did when we looked at the statement of requirement was to recognize that there were many, many elements in it, as was I think pointed out in my remarks. There were mandatory requirements, there were rated requirements, there were constraints--there were a variety

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me to present to the committee today. My name is John R. McDougall, and I am President of the National Research Council of Canada, or NRC. I am accompanied today by Mr. Jerzy Komorowski, Director General of the Instit