I talked about the culture initially. That might be the issue. In an organization that is fully focused on military operations and the related tasks, this might be viewed as secondary.
We talked about the changes that have been made. Inventory management is now recognized much more as a priority among my colleagues. It might indeed be a human resources issue.
To address this issue in the military, we have created a team of logistics specialists who work full time on this. There is a shortage of personnel in many areas of the military, but this area has been recognized as a priority. In the past few years, we have assigned more personnel to it. As to the financial aspect, the technology we are talking about is recognized as a priority. We must go ahead and determine how to proceed.
Two years ago, 640 million items were transferred from one system to the other, which is significant. The information was not current, even when it was entered decades ago. There is a huge volume of information to be corrected.