When we talk about the automated identification technology, we have some of that technology today. We have high-value items that are bar-coded. We use hand scanners. Some of our processes are dated. We're renewing all of our processes. We're doing a lot of work. We're using the technology we have. We're increasing stock-taking, which means we have people going out into the field and visiting bases, visiting warehouses, doing hand counts, using bar codes, doing those sort of things so that we can identify what to dispose of and take the necessary actions.
We also realize, however, that if we don't go further in modernizing this, the potential is going to be to come right back to this situation, so what we're looking at around the world with our NATO allies, with other allies, and with business is determining the state-of-the-art technology—radio frequency identification and things of that nature—so that we can have instantaneous knowledge of the location of a lot of our inventory, particularly the high-value items.
At the same time that we're doing the cleanup, specifically in this automated identification technology, we're looking at how we can improve our processes, how we can automate more of our inventory processes to align with best practices. This way, as we roll forward through the next decade, not only have we cleaned it all up and not only are we capable of coming to the public accounts committee and the OAG and the comptroller general and answering the questions, but we will also be able to do it in a more efficient manner.
We have a large undertaking under defence renewal. We're looking at inventory—the overbuys, the things we're trying to avoid—but we're also taking these other steps to ensure that missiles, torpedoes, and other high-end things are very closely tracked. It's really two parts: how we clean up, and how we improve our practices to manage our inventory.