"We just had a visit last week from several of the various departments there" that sounds audit-a-like Ace. So that's moving ahead. We're optimistic. Our feeling is it's not going to be a question of if. It's a question of when.

Agree completely. Thought you had a notion that there was a merger or buyout in store. "Departments" means to me Navy, Army,AFRL. If you fold in their confidence in their present performance it means IMO they hit their marks in terms of compliance with requirements from these fine people and perhaps were informed by their visitors from the various branches of the military "last week" that they were good to go. When Jeff said this (below), it's the clincher. What he describes is the form and and function of the Defense Production Administration in terms building an Industrial Base that flows out to Commercial, Enterprise what have you. That's their mandate, achieving an economy of scale that benefits the wider economy and securing the domestic industrial base. I'll take a crack at a shrinking workforce and suggest Mantech could supplant with some of their own people. Maybe Active Duty so they get their pittance from we the taxpayers. BTW did you hear Dede hoot with laughter when they discussed the 25k display?
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Yes, yes, yes. Look, the primary purpose of this is for military applications, but recognize the fact that, given the cost structure we have here, where the more units we produce, the lower the unit costs are -- the opportunity here and the interest in having some availability of the secondary or excess capacity applying for the commercial usage. Because by doing that, we're going to have higher volumes. And that's going to lower our costs and lower the price for everyone, including the military.