Winslow Wheeler at the Project on Government oversight described the [US military procurement] system as a self licking ice cream cone. They create this corrupt system and then they profit off of it and use some of the revenue and profits to help sustain the system into the future…The old guard primes, the Lockheed Martins, the Raytheons of the world have this army of lobbyists and former defense officials who effectively serve to keep innovation out to, to keep anything out that they can't profit from. As we chronicle in the book, the system isn't just bad for taxpayers, it's bad for the military itself.