Big corporations have always run the US government. along with the governments of several other countries. The government's practice of using big business for manufacturing has resulted in corporate ownership of many nations
Nothing new there. The Government has always used private corporations. Everything done by governments funds is done by the lowest business. Even the military weapons are made but the lowest bidder. There are no government owned factories, businesses or contractors. However, the successful bidder for government contracts must abide by any and all Government requirements, restrictions and guidelines. Which will include but not be limited to materials, hiring practices, quality, quantity, security restrictions etc.
Bit of trivia a Chinese Company is/was a major manufacturer.
Please note the date of the article and I can not confirm if this is still true today, Just putting this up to give an idea as to how the USA government conducts business.
China Sole Manufacturer of Material for U.S. Missiles
It was in his 2003 State of the Union Address that President George W. Bush expressed his administration?s objective to ?strengthen global treaties banning the production and shipment of missile technologies.? It was thereafter, between 2003 and 2004, in which the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) allowed the last manufacturer in the U.S. that provided a key element instrumental in cruise missile guidance, to be relocated to the Peoples? Republic of China.
During this week?s U.S. visit of China President, Hu Jintao, and his meetings with President Bush and his advisors, it would be apropos to revisit a strategic corporate deal which occurred over a period of several years. With its finality in 2004, the U.S. now remains totally dependent upon China for key rare earth metals and their production necessary in the manufacture of the most crucial of U.S. military warfare
SOURCE:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/8317
In the words of John Glenn, first American in space, when a reporter asked him his thoughts as he was being strapped in the Rocket. "This thing was built by the lowest bidder."