I have seen a lot of changes to the defense industry since the 80’s
Now we have our engineers more concerned with jumping through process hoops than working on design.
I have seen the life sucked out of bright engineers.
Guys who used to work for the shear joy of it, and patriotism, are reduced to miserable automatons.
Leave the military alone
I'd love to. In an ideal world, that would be my first choice. But the reality is that thanks to progressives and RINO's giving us unhindered entitlement spending baked into our system and nearly impossible to eliminate, we have a country that CAN NO LONGER AFFORD our current military.
We HAVE to do something. And, Newt's ideas of applying tools such as Six Sigma, which I know from personal experience to be very effective at improving processes and saving millions of dollars, are FAR AHEAD of the draconian measures that would be taken by Democrats or Paul-like isolationist Republicans.