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But it also includes a number of other, you know, more innovative Australian companies that have been progressively sold off over the last 40 years.

So, uh, even the top five or six companies that we think of as, you know, the, the foreign-owned primes in Australia, your BAE, Boeings, Thales, Northrop, Raytheon and Lockheed, between those six companies, they've, uh, acquired 16 Australian companies over the last 40 years and, uh, you know, that's, uh, led them to and supported them to win a lot of work in Australia as well.

But what it's also done, it's meant that the, uh, Australian sovereign capability, those companies that are owned and run in Australia, have largely disappeared over the years.

You know, it's a, a really interesting situation where for many years, certainly from about 2000 to 2015 while I was spending my earlier years in defence industry, it was almost a given that if, uh, you wanted to win a very large program from defence, then you needed to show a commitment to local industry, and generally that was code for "Go buy an Australian company." Because that brings you local facilities, it brings you employees with an Australian accent, and it's shown that you are committed to the country

And if I'm not, then I'm eating into my backlog, the contracts I won years ago.

And if I don't replace those with new contracts, then my business will shrink and eventually, you know, not be a viable business.

So when I look at those, uh, companies that have been around for a long time in Australia, the Lockheeds, the Thaleses, the Raytheons, the Northrop Grummans, the BAEs, in the last ten years, really only BAE, Lockheed, and Thales have achieved a positive book-to-bill ratio.

So those companies have managed to at least sustain or slightly grow their overall business in Australia.

Already, already if Anduril gets $100 billion, it's ahead of General Dynamics and closing in on Lockheed Martin.

And British Aerospace Systems, BAE, $76 billion.

Northrop Grumman is $74 billion.

Honeywell is $66.