I sat and watched an Alaska-Indian-owned company take over a European contract. They set the pay so low, that a majority of the long-term guys just said enough and left. Those new guys hired? Most stayed a year and would move over to another company/another contract....that paid realistic compensation.
I asked one of the employees if he’d met any of the Indians, and he just laughed. There were two or three middle guys that ran everything, and simply gave the tribe some distribution of funds once a year....for use of the tribal name. He figured within a decade that virtually every single company that dealt with the US military on contracts would be some Indian tribal group....in name only. He guessed that one of the Alaskan Senators was behind the whole thing.
There is way too much of this gaming the system.
I suspect that Trump’s tweet about canceling the AF1 contract is just a way to open up the needed conversation that leads to trying to push back on some of this.
I’m not going to hold my breath waiting to see this actually change anything, but this is the right time to give it a good go (it would take years and probably never be 100% successful -— but let’s get started).