And the basic question of skilled craftsmen who are able to do a whole host of different things very rapidly, that's one of the things that we have to fix in order for us to accomplish the things that we need to accomplish. The President's very focused on [fixing the loss of critical skills]. that, but it drives home, I mean, how much of a national emergency we're in that we've lost critical skills and we weren't even aware that we had lost those skills until a few months ago. (17:26–17:29)
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