I've been involved in this business since 1982. When I first came to National Defence Headquarters as a major, I was the manager of the army's equipment program.
My view would be that over the past 25 years we have had some internal self-inflicted wounds, as I mentioned, but there has often been uncertainty by governments about how much they wanted to fund in national defence, and uncertainty in the department about whether it was affordable or whether we would get policy approval. That uncertainty itself has consumed a lot of time.
When we say 15 years and it takes 9 years to get to the policy approval stage, that wasn't all in DND. Let's be honest, it wasn't all in DND, but the part that was in DND.... When we embark on a three-year process to write a technical specification, that doesn't help. Frankly, I can't tell Sikorsky how to design a better helicopter.