Thank you for the question.
I'd say that NRC's history in this regard is quite strong. If you think about the role that the NRC played in World War II in military matters, that extended subsequently to technologies such as stapling for surgery. These are things that cross over from the military battlefield and become something that is generally diffused as a part of our health system.
Today's version of that is equally important, though. What are we doing now? I'll give a couple of examples.
In the defence industrial strategy, we have a new challenge program that's been launched on biomedical countermeasures. What this means is that the forces need us to rapidly respond with countermeasures to threats they may face in the field. That same rapid response translates to pandemic response and meeting needs for Canada. We're happy that we've had a strong signal from the surgeon general of the Canadian Armed Forces to work closely with us to support programs in the biomedical area.
Secondary is the diagnostic medicine in the field. For an emergency doctor, sepsis is a very big concern in the emergency room. NRC has technology that's now been deployed with academic partners where we've been able to identify sepsis on a much faster time scale—which is relevant to being able to do something—using remote diagnostics microfluidics technology. The opportunities for military deployment in remote of this kind of rapidly deployed lab-on-a-chip microfluidic technology also can relate to things that we need in our civilian emergency rooms to support our health care needs. We think the opportunity to use this agenda to advance things that will help in the health care system is actually quite significant in that area.