Ken Calvert: “We're down to six or seven major defense contractors.”

“Well, you know, in the nineties, as you know, after the fall of the Soviet Union, we went down from a lot of contractors down to a few. We're down to six or seven major defense contractors. There's not enough competition within the system. I think the prices are too high. That's because of that. A lot of it.” (04:16–04:21)

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