Or taking jobs working on rocket programs for other countries and other militaries, and for private-sector entities in other countries, which I suspect is part of the core of the development program.

It's not just private entities in the US that are interested in rockets and satellite deployments. (We're well on our way to four parallel GPS systems, after all. The US GPS, the European Galileo, Russian GLONASS and the Chinese Beidou system that are all coming online.)

And beyond GPS satellites and as Herr von Braun and others showed many years ago, rockets are dual-use technologies.