The key piece of the RFI was that it be unanimous. It was a conclusion of the RFI that the only aircraft currently available that offered a solution to all Department of National Defence HLMRs, their high-level mandatory requirements, was the Boeing P-8 Poseidon. From a process point of view, we went from capturing this information to doing the analysis to trying to dig more into this potential solution—the Boeing P-8 Poseidon.
The interesting part about this procurement is that the only way we could get additional information from Boeing regarding the RFI was through a government-to-government military sale engagement. Therefore, in late 2022, we kick-started that engagement through a letter of request to the U.S. government to make sure we were going to have specific information about the Boeing P-8 Poseidon as we went forward. That was to ensure we had all the pieces of information necessary to make our call about next steps and further analysis.