My husband works for a large DoD contractor. In fact ALL of them; Lockheed Martin, Martin Marietta, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Hughes Aircraft, Rocketdyne, Rockwell, General Dynamics. Some of these have merged and the names are different now, but he’s worked at all of them. Seven years ago he decided to get out of the big business and do what he’s doing, which is scheduling programming financial analyst program management, but he wanted to do it with a smaller company. He found one which wasn’t easy, especially here in Colorado Springs. What this company does is when a large company like Lockheed Martin is given a contract by DoD, the company he works for follows along and basically looks over their shoulder to make sure they are following the contract to the letter, not overcharging not over spending, etc., etc. The company he works for has also been sold three times since he started working there. Some bigger company will buy them, put some money into them, get some SMEs, then they can start getting onto bigger contracts and can charge the government more $. Once they’ve done that, a company comes along buys them and it starts all over again for investment people to make money. With all this being said, we were coming home from a drs. appt. the other day, maybe 2-3 days ago and he said “You know how when we bid for contracts they usually go out for years? Well, KBR, the company that just bought us had a meeting with us and said “we are only going to be looking at programs that go out to, 25-26 fiscal year.” Everyone in the meeting turned to the person next to them and basically looked at them like “What the hell?!” For the government to only be looking out to the fiscal year 2026 is never ever done! The government looks at contracts that go out by 10, 15, 20 years. So what do you think that means?” I kind of knew but didn’t want to burst his bubble, so I just shrugged my shoulders. He said “That Means the government is looking at possibly a war or something just as good as a war starting sometime end of ‘25 mid ‘26. They would not want to be in the middle of any DoD contracts with the war hanging over their head or getting ready to start!”

In the 52 years that my husband has been working with the government he has held secret top-secret classified needs to know basis only and higher clearances. He used to come home and ask me “want to know where bin Laden is today? As soon as I retire then I can tell you. If he’s not dead before then”. He’s worked with the FBI on updating their filing systems. He’s worked at the Pentagon, but he couldn’t tell me what he was doing. They sent him back to Washington for six months. I couldn’t even have his mailing address, so he’s worked on some really spooky scary stuff that he always keeps to himself. I just sent him a screenshot of this page that says the Netanyahu‘s house was bombed. He wrote back and said “I told you there was a reason. I knew there was a reason why the contracts had slowed up. I’m really glad I’ll be retiring next August!” I sure hope he gets a chance to retire. He’s 72! And he was RIGHT!

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