We have actually done a SMART cable feasibility study. Jim McFarlane, Jr., son of the famous James McFarlane, Sr., who created International Submarine Engineering Ltd., has been engaging on my behalf with the defence sector, environmental groups and the industry to basically better understand the state of the marine sector but also how to manage that data. We know that there are already some cables, usually older cables, that are collecting data.
On the west coast, with the University of Victoria, we know that Ocean Networks Canada has a project up in Cambridge Bay. We know that there is work being done on the east coast as well. The SMART cable that is combining the telecommunications cable and the sensor cable is actually something that the Portuguese are working on. It's probably the most advanced. There's one more company, called PolArctic, that's based in Alaska. It's run by an indigenous woman who is a former air force member.
We definitely want to figure out for Canada how we can collect this data in a way that is useful for many different users while also recognizing that there are already protocols that the defence sector must be involved in with regard to being able to get the data that meets their national security requirements. They take priority when and if there is a need to respond to a foreign incursion in our region.
So it's relatively new. We also know that quantum computing is absolutely necessary to help process the sheer volume of data through this modern artificial intelligence software program that is being worked on, primarily in the western countries. Those are the ones we're most interested in. We don't want, of course, Chinese or foreign entities working on software that could harvest it for non-ally purposes.