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- ▶ 6:25 David Rosenthal And then after that, John, as you might imagine, founded, you guessed it, Northrop, which is now Northrop Grumman.
- ▶ 2:34:53 David Rosenthal And Northrop, which is not Northrop, but Northrop Grumman, and which very closely, almost, was part of Lockheed Martin, but got blocked by the DOJ.
- ▶ 2:39:47 Ben Gilbert There's the five big primes, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics.
- ▶ 2:40:20 David Rosenthal In January, 1996, shortly after the big merger goes through, they then acquire the defense business from Loral for almost ten billion dollars, and then, as we said a minute ago, in July, 1997, they attempt to merge with Northrop Grumman.
- ▶ 2:40:53 Ben Gilbert Yeah, I mean, the thing with the five big primes is they're all, like, very good at a certain bucket of things, and so if you start combining Lockheed and Northrop, which are the two that really kind of, like, bid against each other at…
- ▶ 2:45:57 Ben Gilbert Which, by the way, the B-II was kind of a make good when they gave that to Northrop Grumman.
- ▶ 2:46:15 Ben Gilbert In a lot of the early competitions, but the government still gave the award to Northrop Grumman because there was some particular plane that the government said Northrop could manufacture a bunch of and then sell internationally and then…
- ▶ 2:46:42 Ben Gilbert For the B-II, Boeing makes the wings, Northrop makes the cockpit, LTV makes the bomb bays, and the back end of the B-II airplane, in addition to 4000 subcontractors working on bits and pieces of everything else.
- ▶ 2:56:44 Ben Gilbert The fuselage is Northrop Grumman.
- ▶ 3:01:05 Ben Gilbert Lockheed, then Boeing, then General Dynamics, then Raytheon, then Northrop, then McKesson.
- ▶ 3:17:09 Ben Gilbert I mean, it's funny, like, Lockheed versus Northrup, there's not counter positioning, really.
- ▶ 3:17:57 Ben Gilbert Is Lockheed Martin's process versus Northrop Grumman's process?