Most companies are suffering from the same disease as the government which is contract fetishization and "running lean", but there certainly exist within this country enough engineers who could simply be federal government employees and design fighter jets.
(If building better and cheaper fighter jets were something we wanted, but I do not think it is. Would be nice for trains, though.)
Is there a company that could do everything in-house at this point?
Most companies are suffering from the same disease as the government which is contract fetishization and "running lean", but there certainly exist within this country enough engineers who could simply be federal government employees and design fighter jets.
(If building better and cheaper fighter jets were something we wanted, but I do not think it is. Would be nice for trains, though.)