Thank you for the question.
As I said in my opening comments, my role is to support innovation in science and technology in the Department of National Defence. It is to provide the Canadian Forces with the best technologies. They need a tactical advantage, a technological advantage, when they are in operations, so my role is to give them the best technologies. It is also to work with procurement folks, whether in DND or at PSPC, to identify the best technologies on the market and to provide advice on what will work in the hands of operators in the field.
The Department of National Defence does not have an economic mandate, an economic mission. We do support companies. We have a program called the defence industrial research program, whereby we cost-share with industry the risk of doing research and development. In fact, on the web at the moment we have a program that allows this.