I'll be very brief and offer just one thought.
Without knowing the other country systems, I don't know if, by comparison, there are things that work well here that should be in place there. What I can do, though, is suggest something that doesn't work well in our system and that I would suggest you try to avoid.
Our system is very statutory-based. It's highly technical. Many of the rules are based in procurement law. Every time something goes wrong, Congress writes a new law. You could think of it as barnacles on a ship. They keep getting added and are never taken away. If you look at our United States code, it's like a graveyard of past acquisition mistakes.
The only problem with that is that it's a lot to keep up with. It makes it very technical and hard for the workforce to adapt to and keep up with. We have to have a very professional acquisition corps, which requires a lot of training and makes it very hard for them to be creative, dynamic and agile.
Our greatest success in recent reforms has been finding pathways to try to streamline this [Technical difficulty—Editor].