Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our guests, our deputy ministers, General Smyth and the members of the armed forces for joining us. Thank you for your service and your dedication to these efforts to make sure that we can enhance our national defence capabilities.
General, you talked about the technology ecosystem. When we invest in our defence, how important is it to have interoperable capabilities with our allied nations? How important is that to decision-making, when you're talking about everything from aircraft to ships?