Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day.

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Welcome to Industry Focus. I'm Nick Saipel. Pentagon Watchers got a surprise late

last month when the Air Force revealed in a designed and built a prototype of its next fighter plane.

Remarkably, the entire development process likely coordinated with multiple defense contractors

over the course of many months was completed without any rumors leaking about the program.

This aircraft is just the latest example of how little we know about the cutting edge of military defense

and how much investors are kept in the dark about where the Pentagon spends its money.

On this week's episode, Molly Fool Contributor Lou Whiteman joins the show to take a look

at classified defense spending and what it means for defense investors.

Lou, welcome back on the podcast.

Happy to be here.

Great to have you on as well always.

We've got a fun topic this week talking about classified projects in the defense industry.

Before we dive into some of these projects and maybe how should think about them as an investor.

This high-level, maybe this is an obvious question, but why are there so many classified

projects with the U.S. military and with militaries in general?

Yeah, you know, I mean, dissertations have been written on this, so we won't go in too deep.

But in a very simple level, the Pentagon will argue that secrecy is the key to military superiority.

We can't let our rivals, our enemies know what we are working on, no different than a football coach hide into playbook.

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