[TulliusCicero]

> So why wouldn't they just keep charging what they were charging, and building what they always did.

So that they can keep up with any eventual newcomers?

[jvanderbot]

IIRC, large primes have limited IRAD funding for the most part - in some cases fixed %, so to do research you have to charge more to the Gov. That's just plain a "cost saving measure" enacted by government.