Every now and again LinkedIn will be like hey here's some engineering jobs and I'll scroll through it, how is it possible that even tiny towns in nowhere USA have companies that do military work. Like surely at some point you've got to have engineering companies that do not require their staff to have security clearance, this seems excessive. I swear I saw a family owned naval hull manufacturing company the last time I was on there.
Military contracting gets widely scattered so that each program might shore up its budgetary support by creating jobs in as many Congressional districts in search of an industrial base as possible.