Yes, sir, I can take that one as well.
Over the past four or five years, the government has made a number of significant changes in defence procurement. The most basic one has been going to performance-based procurement, therefore best value--best value of both the acquisition cost and the cost to own it, to run it, so the cost of ownership over 20 years--and to leave the detailed specifications and lowest-price compliant process behind, although not necessarily exclusively.
This government has also committed to the Canadian Forces on the Canada First defence strategy, which has taken away a lot of the political and financial insecurity associated with where you can make a decision to proceed or not. It also has implemented accrual-based financing, where effectively you can buy a series of equipment, you get accrual cash from the Department of Finance, and then you repay that as a series of mortgage payments within the A-base of the department, which has permitted the department to proceed on a large number of programs at the same time. Historically, you had to have the cash to actually go out and buy a frigate, or a ship, or a helicopter, and you actually couldn't afford to do more than one at once.
So there are I think three major factors that have made a big difference in how long it's taken, and we've driven it down from about 10 years to less than four years, from the identification requirement to contract signing.