Never directly, but I've spent 20 years adjacent to the defense industry, almost half of that working directly under a salty old engineer of Lockheed pedigree.

Never directly, but I've spent 20 years adjacent to the defense industry, almost half of that working directly under a salty old engineer of Lockheed pedigree. Something like that should be a minimum job requirement for covering the defense industry, imo. Without it, they're far too credulous.