Maybe Anne-Marie can also complement that, but some countries are clearly having conversations with us. They say, “Here's the airplane we want. Here's the capability we want the airplane to have. Here are all the systems we're looking for.” They give us the range they need to fly. They will say that they need to fly at x altitude. Here are all the short runways they need to have the capability to operate on. The airplane has to have all the systems to do surveillance or communications, or whatever the requirement is.
The requirements are not specific to the smallest detail we would like to see. We shouldn't care about the colour of the wire at some point, or which company we're buying the bolts from. We should be giving them an airplane that performs and delivers the mission they're looking for.
I think there is a bit of a middle ground here that needs to happen. Anne-Marie works with other countries that have a much simpler process. Then we're having a conversation where we say, here's how we think we'll do that, and they say, yes, they like it or that they would like us to consider other options. That's a dialogue that takes place, and that's what we should be doing now.
Right now we don't even know if there will be an RFP. They seem to have made up their minds on flawed information. The information they had was not right.
