Military Spending and Private Industry

Here is a fascinating chart from globalsecurity.org, which shows the consolidation of firms in the defense contracting industry over the course of a few decades.  Whereas approximately thirty companies were producing weaponry and other weapons systems for the federal government decades ago, now there are only four.  Is this a good or a bad thing, or does it even matter?

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