Ms Jacqui McCrum:

We have a capability development unit and any projects that are forecast for the future would be undertaken through that. That is also a civil-military unit. It would forecast out and look at what where we need to go, depending on what our strategic intent is, and that would be profiling it out.

It comes back to the construct of what the Defence Forces are. The Defence Forces are subject to executive control so they cannot, in any democracy, be responsible for all of the financing. That is just not a practical solution.