Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for being here with your team. Thank you for coming out to Nova Scotia. I know you and your associate minister there love getting back home.
We had an opportunity, as you know, to visit the defence research and development command, the DRDC. I think about the way they partner with the private sector. They partner with industry. So many of the partners that the DRDC is using are located right in Dartmouth—Cole Harbour. Many of them are Canadian-focused as well.
We've heard an awful lot at this committee that new and emerging technologies are challenging the security environment. We need to invest to keep pace and to adjust to the threats of these technologies, while also ensuring that we're working with industry to develop our own capacity in Canada.
Can you walk us through how National Defence is working to address these challenges?