And that's job number one at the Pentagon. I mean they really, from day one, I will give the Trump administration, I think even his critics would have understood We have an industrial base problem and we need to be part of the solution by both making our purchasing policies more dependable to encourage additional investment. In some cases, we're investing ourselves, we're putting money into shipyards. We're partnering with companies on things in ways that we haven't in the past, so that we burden share with them with the idea that the weapons systems will come out faster. (18:24–18:35)
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Asserts that the U.S. has an industrial base problem that requires more dependable purchasing policies to encourage investment.
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