One of the lesser known sideline capabilities of the Arctic and offshore patrol ships will be to host containerized research laboratories and all sorts of other facilities on board. The research community here in Halifax is quite excited about this prospect. Quest, of course, was unable to go into ice water, and so that'll be a new ability. They're not as quiet as Quest was. Quest was designed to do Cold War acoustics research, but I think we have higher priority needs at the moment.
I'm very worried about research and development, as well, but also about education, modelling, and simulation. The navy does not have its own education program. It does not have its doctrine development and warfare analysis skills. The program that I used to chair at the college in Toronto is gone. The defence fellowship at Dalhousie University is now shut down. There's really no place the navy goes anymore to give its people the professional acumen they need at their mid-career point. I think this is just as big a problem as science R and D issues that are related to technical issues.