However, most of the defense-industry workers are scattered among hundreds of local manufacturers that contribute parts and subassemblies for weapons.

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As companies like Lucent, Compaq (now part of Hewlett-Packard) and Philips Electronics move to outsourcing of subassemblies, they sell work in progress and other operations to Jabil, which then gets a contract to do the work.

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