It won’t be pork. It will be high quality engineering & science with many, many defense contractors, who are highly skilled and qualified for a more reasonable contract/labor cost vs. high markets like CA or WA State.
Just like with the automotive industry that is flourishing in TN, AL, SC & GA with the likes of Toyota, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes, Kia & Hyundai . . . these states are COMPETING for manufacturing plants and it will be the same for defense contracts.
There is a big difference between Right To Work vs Union and the contracts and benefits to our government & military branches.
Okay, fair enough. It sounded like you were saying if the Senator for Alabama became SecDEF he would steer work to the state of Alabama which is fine for a Senator to do (represent the interests of their state) but not for a Secretary of Defense.