allowed MASSIVE Defense Industry consolidations it allowed for MASSIVE Defense Corp to exist(Northop-Grumman, Lockheed-Martin and the like).How does this translate to non-conforming material/weak bolts used on a contract that specified otherwise on prints, drawings, etc?
One case example would help your case (the prosecution should _not_ be giving hints to the defense).
Smaller Companies are easier to keep track of.
No competition. Why worry about quality when you customer has no place else to go to get their ships built? There is a single company building carriers. A single company building large surface combatants. Two companies building destroyers. Two companies building submarines. Twenty or thirty years ago there were quite a few more.