When the author explains the defense industry point that:<p>"many of the nation’s best young people tend to avoid ‘old’ manufacturing industries - including the aerospace sector "<p>he reinforces by adding:<p>defense firms now have to compete with Apple, Google, Facebook and anything Y Combinator funds for bright tech engineers.<p>Y combinator is now more ubiquitous than I though!<p>NEXT STEP: name converted into a verb (as ycombinated...)