I worked for Honeywell, the most ethical company of all the ones I worked for. Having said that, they hired the colonel who managed the project I worked on to be the program manager of that project. They waited the statutory amount of time for him to officially take that job. However, in the meantime they’d call him in to schmooze his way through the all the intervening secretaries in the Pentagon so we could get connected to the actual decision maker there. Once connected he’d leave.
Honeywell moved its global headquarters out of northern New Jersey to Charlotte, North Carolina. The company must be doing very well with their government contracts. Check out their new headquarters.
https://www.pmc.works/portfolio/honeywell