Dr. Eric Haseltine
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Right.
And so they don't really rip off people consciously.
That's not at all what happens.
It's the government says, when you do procurement, you have to do it this way.
And when you do cost accounting, you have to do it this way.
And you have to do this, that, and the other.
And when you add up the slowness-
And the cost is because that's what the government is.
It's slow and it's expensive.
And really, you could kind of look at these companies and say they're more like part of the government in the way Mikoyan or Kalashnikov or Sukhoi is really part of the Russian.
And so they're really just replicas of the government.
And so the problem is that...
The U.S.
is falling behind China and Russia and Iran in some cases in hypersonics.
And they're saying, we can't have this.
We can't fall behind China.
Everything is dual use because the government is everything.
So they're turning to Silicon Valley to do faster.
Yeah.
And they're relaxing the rules for them.