Unfortunately, 10, 15 years ago, some of our adversaries started to weaponize space and weaponize space aggressively. We stood on sideline probably too long. We didn't want to go down that path. But now we're pushing hard. We didn't start the race to weaponize space, but we have to make sure we can continue to operate in that domain going forward. We can't lose that high ground launch. I think there's immense amount of activity going on on launch. We're launching probably an order of magnitude more than we did when I first started an acquisition. (17:41–17:50)
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