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Primes? ...sorry not familiar with the lingo.

• stagger87 5y ago
  The major defense contractors.
• ms512 5y ago
  Prime Contractor. It is a company that is responsible for the final integration of a system, but often fans out subcomponents to a large assortment of other companies.
• pebcack 5y ago
  The contracting company that wins a bid for a contract is the Prime contractor. Often times these companies will then subcontract out some of that work (and sometimes it's even required by the contract to do so) to other contracting companies which would then be the Sub-contractor. That's where the "Prime" and "Sub" lingo in re: to DoD contracting comes form.
  • airstrike 5y ago
    And the sub-contractors are sometimes further broken down into Tier 2, Tier 3... depending on how far down the value-chain they are