Andy Lowery

That's what it means at its core.

In a Raytheon, you're a services contractor.

You have the military that decides what they want you to build.

They put them all down in like 1,000 requirements.

They hand you a bunch of requirements, and you just build a system that meets the requirements.

You get paid, and then you move on to the next system.

There's no real design process there.

It's like baked into the system engineering.

It's baked into the way that operational commands give feedback to procurement commands and to requirement commands.

And all of that is a very bureaucratic process.

You get good products out of it.

You get expensive products out of it.

You get exquisite products out of it.

But what we're seeing now is a whole new chapter.

It's the stuff that's built at the big primes

are not sufficient for this new fight.

And before anybody gets angry with that and why I say that, I'll give you an analogy.

For the last decades, the primes have been focused on, let's say, going out and hunting a lion or lions, like big, big beasts.

They have to bring in the big nets, the big guns, the big whatever that they need to go hunt lions.

The problem we see today are like mice and little mice that are running around.