Thank you for the question.
I would hesitate to go into the sausage-making of exact technologies. What I can say at that sort of parent level is that we do have a significant number of innovation programs, and I understand over the course of the last few days you've heard from even Stats Canada on a number of these programs.
There are some 60 R and D programs, I believe, ranging from small programs or tax programs like IRAP and SR and ED to very large programs like SADI and BCIP. Those programs right now I would say are disconnected from the procurements that are going to be going on in the future or the procurements that are going on today. We know that you have to start R and D probably five or 10 years in the past in order to have it ready for landing on a procurement in the future.
The challenge is that there is no coherent connection between those programs and a procurement involving the people actively working on the files. Let's say it's mapping and charting of the Arctic, and we want to develop or incentivize that technology in Canada through the Canadian surface combatant program under the ships program. That thinking right now, to our knowledge, isn't necessarily going on, that glue, so you have this disconnect in that you might be driving that dollar-for-dollar work into something that the country might not even be interested in.
If you don't incentivize the prime or signal the prime by saying we want that exact thing, then they will give you what they want to give you. They will effectively give you the leftover that their country doesn't want. That's where we see that decoupling. You're working on R and D in Canada and you're maybe not even buying it, and secondly, you're incentivizing primes to put money into certain aspects of the Canadian economy that's not even linked to your research and development programs.
That would be one of those examples.