big reductions in manufacturing = offshoring by traitors.
Not offshoring really. There were a bunch of mergers and facilities were combined or abandoned. Making less with less.
For instance the old McDonnell Douglas (ex Northrop) plant in Hawthorne CA, is currently the SpaceX factory where they make the Falcon 9. In the old days they assembled fighters there, the last one may have been the prototypes of the YF-23, competitor to the F-22.