Back in my birth-country, there are entities called “Government Owned or Controlled Corporations” (C.O.C.C.'s). Given how the weapons-manufacturing cabal has perverted what should be self-defense mechanisms into forever-profit forever-wars, it looks like our Union needs this.
In general, G.O.C.C.'s are created by government. But in our context, here’s an idea: Once an originally-“private” company has a specified percentage of its (“income” or “net-worth”?) is tax-payer derived, it’s time for them to be honest with themselves and admit that the government has bought them. They’re G.O.C.C.'s now, and (like G.O.C.C.'s back in my part of the world) the U.S.-based G.O.C.C.'s profits go straight back to the Treasury every year!
They still get to harness the profit-motive to drive them forward, and the profit can still be used (business-wise) as a metric of grading success & productivity, BUT the original purpose (serving the people) is not lost. In the U.S. context, foreign government’s purchases can also become a source of revenue for funding the people’s programs, which makes sense given the purchased weapons-system’s very development was taxpayer-funded! So, the taxpayer’s investment returns to them with more goods/services, lower taxes, or royalty-payments direct-deposited into their income-tax associated bank-account!
So, how’s this for an idea?