Actually, what we would really welcome is a conversation with you, perhaps over in one of our buildings. We have some big plans we need discuss, including the defence industrial strategy, which we need to draft. We would really appreciate having input from all across the country, but particularly from this committee.
We're looking forward to your reporting on housing coming up.
We think we have lots of good ideas, but there are always more to come. In fact, the interactions directly with those affected are going to make the difference in what the outcome is and how successful we are on our Pathfinder initiative.
I know we didn't really talk about procurement reform today, but we're always happy to discuss it. This is very much on our minds. There are many things we can control internally so that we change our own processes to speed up. It does mean making choices that are difficult. In some cases, if we're doing more of what I would call “directed procurement”, it means somebody doesn't get it. There is always a trade-off, but that does manage to then speed up the actual outcome at the end.
We've seen some instances of that being very successful recently. Actually, I would point to the RFI on submarines, which we're hoping will be a demonstration of how we can actually do procurement differently, with the success at the end being the capabilities we need in a timely manner.