We've talked about the acquisitions process, but I want to remind everybody that we all need to participate in exercising a little more thoughtfulness when it comes to our taxpayer dollars. The Navy procured a number of littoral combat ships years ago... The Navy didn't want them, the Navy didn't need them. and yet the primes, the Congress, everybody said you're going to have them. So we ran into a number of issues with those. Many of them are. They're just unusable. (03:19–03:29)
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