Madam Chair, I would suggest that every country that is building ships at this complexity and has a program this large is struggling with many of the same issues we are.
We are the third country, for example, to build the type 26 surface combatant. We are learning from the U.K. and from our colleagues in Australia.
The national shipbuilding strategy set out to do more than one thing. Of course, we wanted to resupply and recapitalize the navy and the Coast Guard, but we're also building an industry. Those two objectives, both critical for us as a country, added to the complexity.
I would say the other complexity is that we build ships once every 30, 35 or 40 years, for both the navy and the Coast Guard. We're leaping generations of technology in one program and in one project, and that adds to the complexity, because the last time we built ships was in the eighties and nineties for the navy, and before that, really, for the Coast Guard. A more regular process of building ships would, I think, reduce the complexity.