Thank you.
IDEaS is one of the shining stars of “Strong, Secure, Engaged”. We're very proud of it. It has taken off in a way that none of us could have imagined at its inception. We're using the money to fund the challenges that have already been announced. It's $1.6 billion dollars over 20 years. It's $2.5 million this year to fund the competitive projects.
The kinds of things we're looking at are things like improving gender diversity, a study to help us do that. The University of Waterloo is doing it. The University of Ottawa is looking at a multi-stage approach to addressing sex disparities in musculoskeletal injuries in military operators. We go from the very big to the very specific in the IDEaS program. We have an AI project on smart recruiting using deep learning.
The money requested in this year's supplementary (A)s is to fund those challenges. We put challenges out four times a year, and we're overwhelmed by the response to them. It is a huge success.