Thank you for the question.
The short answer is absolutely. We actually have a very focused effort at the moment. It's a whole-of-government effort, including all the departments and agencies that you see at the table here this evening and more. We're looking at the entire spectrum of the defence procurement.
I characterize it as a system. We're looking at pre-procurement activities. We're looking at what I call the “pure procurement activities”, which are more focused on the request for information, the request for proposals and bid evaluations leading to a contract award. We're also looking at post-procurement, post-contract-award activities. Those would include not only the implementation—i.e., building ships after the contract has been awarded—but also the sustainment of these assets.
One of the key initiatives we have under way now focuses on continuous capability sustainment. That would enable the enterprise to actually work with the supplier long term to maintain the capability and make it relevant with good contracting and equipment upgrade solutions for life. That's one of the initiatives we have. We're looking at many other things.
You mentioned partnerships and, maybe, collaborative projects. We're looking at those too.
On the pre-procurement side, we're focusing on really gaining a good understanding of what we need to do from a capability planning point of view. If we want to build ships, if we want to buy aircraft or if we want to buy ammunition, the earlier we get the signal and the earlier we plan for these, the easier the procurement strategy and the actual procurement thereafter will be.
Thank you.