So changing how we treat the fiscal structure of our dollars is important because right now, if we leased something, there's no benefit to leasing because The Congressional Budget Office and Government Accounting Office... force us to calculate the entire lifetime impact of a lease at the moment of signing the lease. So if we want to lease a Sealif vessel and we want to lease it for 15 years or 20 years, we have to treat the whole 20 year cost … (31:34–31:46)
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Asserts that CBO and GAO require the full lifetime cost of a lease to be accounted for at signing.
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