Fair enough.... But I did a lot of work with Raytheon Corporation.
They did as much to make our space tracking mission successful as anyone in the government.
Yes, but at the time the only people ordering or able to afford such tech were governments. Today, private space organizations routinely buy systems that vastly exceed the capabilities of systems from 1979.
Here’s another similar case in point - one reason why smaller NATO and non-aligned nations don’t buy photo reconnaissance satellites and have them launched is because today, right now, you (or anyone else with a surprisingly low amount of money - relatively) can buy time on *commercial* privately-owned photo reconsats that have better resolution than those the US military was using in the 1990s. Let alone those used in the time you were at Raytheon.