Lockheed, in addition to other contractors, will continue to grow steadily, and the surge in spending is due to the need for extensive refurbishment of our nuclear stockpile. The significant cost is due to the enormous amount of infrastructure to update our aging stockpile. Intercontinental ballistic missile are highly sophisticated and retrofitting silos and building rockets costs billions. You may notice that many defense contracts are awarded to multiple companies due to the magnitude of effort and talent needed to accomplish this goal. The reason why we are doing this today is because our nuclear stockpile has been neglected since inception of the nuclear program.
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