It's Common sense. You can't be everywhere. And finally, I'll end again, kind of where we started with the Defense Industrial Base. Decades of underinvestment and nonsensical bureaucracy and unstable demand signals have left us at a place where we're too reliant on too few. And what we do get is, yes, exquisite, but can't scale. We're just at a point where, if we needed to rebuild as we are right now, the arsenal of freedom, we have to make fundamental changes. (24:58–25:09)
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Asserts that underinvestment and bureaucracy have made the U.S. defense industry overly reliant on a few suppliers.
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