The fundamental issue is that we're buying an airplane that is effectively wings and a jet engine wrapped around a super computer that has missiles and can do other things. It's really about the software and the computing power, the ability to bring together information that will make either of the different aircraft that we could potentially buy effectively work.
What we're looking at is, depending on which fighter jet is chosen, a very different regime for managing that. With the F-35, we would be part of a consortium that we've been a member of for approaching two decades, where the program that manages that will be managing that data, managing that intellectual property, and Canada will have access to it to leverage a lot of what's happening and being done primarily in the United States, but with the other partner members of that program.
With the Gripen, what's being proposed is to basically transfer all of that information to Canada, which would give Canada sovereign control, as has been proposed, over doing that. That would put more of the onus on Canada to actually maintain that ourselves, as well as the opportunity to do so. I don't think we would have the same type of availability to access what's happening with some of our other key allies as we will with the F-35s.
They're a very different set of potential scenarios, depending on which aircraft we choose.