Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to our witnesses for their testimony. I found it quite useful.
I want to go back to Mr. Collins and, specifically, talk about customization. In your submission and opening remarks, you said that in both ambition and scope, the NSS has no parallel in this country's history. You also talked later on about how building a 21st-century navy and coast guard is a complicated business and a geopolitical challenge.
We all agree that there have been requests put forward for customization. The customization, to the extent that it's been put forward, is a determinant of the amount of investment that we need to make.
I want to go back to the fundamental question of whether you consider this a desire by our national forces, or whether you consider this to be a need. If you consider this to be a need, what are the factors that drive that need for us to be able to look at this type of customization?