It's a tough call. I'm sure Tory isn't thrilled about it. But he has to reduce his overhead, invest that back into the business, become more competitive, then hopefully grow his business again and at some point, hopefully be able to hire a new generation of workers down the road. They'll be reducing across all verticals though. And with only 2 pads and one launcher as the near term vision, they just won't need their current workforce. And this is not limited to ULA, it will reverberate throughout their supply chain. Just look at what may happen to AJR in the next few years. They may lose everything ULA related to BO and ATK. But, that means the new BO will be hiring as perhaps would ATK. And the wheel keeps spinning.



As crass as this may sound and I know how this feels, but, adapt or die. Do you want a 20% reduction in todays workforce or 100% of tomorrow's. I was in San Diego recently and my cab driver was complaining about Uber. I said we are living in very disruptive times and as much as I understood and sympathized with his plight, you can't go around ripping all the ATM machines out and putting bank tellers back in the windows. Nor will all the ATM machine providers and service technicians be able to stop everyone bypassing those and using their various money transfer apps. And it takes many thousands of people to build and service ATMs but only a handful to build and maintain an app. Etc...etc...



Anyways, my many thanks and admiration for all those that have helped loft many of the sats and spacecraft that have so positively impacted us all. Best of luck in the days, weeks, months, years to come. Hell...good luck to all of us. The pace of change is staggering and only getting faster. There's no going back.