I was out in the West Coast. SpaceX, I'm doing a tour. They take me in a room and the head of manufacturing puts up a chart that shows Somewhere between 500 and 1,000 suppliers for SpaceX and NASA in Pennsylvania. Precision machining, composite metals. So that defense industrial base, if you think about defense just as the primes, the companies that have the F35, you miss what America needs to deliver. (03:57–04:05)
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Asserts that Pennsylvania has between 500 and 1,000 suppliers for SpaceX and NASA.
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