There is, absolutely. In fact, with our system, when we talk about stock codes, they are NATO stock numbers. Across all of NATO, for example, we use a common approach, common fields for stock. We have multinational and bilateral agreements. “Mutual logistic support arrangements” is what we call them.
Again, in my career at sea, we routinely would work with allies, mostly with the U.S., by virtue of the type of equipment. Many times at sea, through binational and international agreements for common equipment, I've accessed spare parts through our allies. We do that.
When I talk about the system, at this point I'm talking about the software or the enterprise system, but we have to be very careful about that as well in the context of data refresh and knowing where it is and what's going on. A lot of it is satellite-based. We'll have what we call a deployed instance of our defence resource management information system, but interestingly, we have to be careful that we don't put it on a ship that actually goes EMCON, silent, and turns off all the emissions, but the logistic system is actually saying, “Here I am”, or that we don't have an RFID system on weapons that others can detect.
We have an operational dynamic to it, but we absolutely co-operate internationally.