It’s a bad analogy. In this case Lockheed isn’t building a killer drone and then finding a market for it, nation states are sending requirements to Lockheed based on what they want to do. Hence the label “defense contractor.”
I think your analogy would hold if slop creators were creating requirements and contracting OpenAI to build the thing that lets them slop edit Wikipedia and GitHub issues. But since they aren’t, this is breaking the analogy.
You are still within the edit window to change up your analogy (but unfortunately not to completely delete your post), so you have a little time to make it coherent.
I suspect that this is a very simplistic view of how R&D and the revolving door work.
For example, previous Secretary of War Lloyd Austin was on the board of Ratheon
https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving-door/lloyd-austin/summ...
You’re not wrong at all, and I agree, but it was an analogy for someone who was comparing defense contracting companies with a regular saas company. In any case, for these purposes I don’t think we need to address all edge cases.