I've been there as well and agree. The defense world is a headache. Everything slows you down. Its like trying to swim through fruit cake. Lockmart and Boeing

I've been there as well and agree. The defense world is a headache. Everything slows you down. Its like trying to swim through fruit cake. Lockmart and Boeing are fortunate that SpaceX has no desire to get into the defense game beyond launching satellites for the Space Force. They wouldn't be as fast as their past work, half the friction in the defense world is imposed by the customer. But they would be faster than the incumbents.