Why that approach? I mean, you are having five yards, highly qualified, a lot of work, a lot of intellectual input, why not some kind of division of those--of that buy in order, again, to get back to the question we were discussing about industrial base?
King questions the winner-take-all strategy in shipbuilding contracts.
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