From a lot of \( 10 \) items, which include \( 3 \) defective items, a sample of \( 5 \) items is drawn at random. Let the random variable \( X \) denote the number of defective items in the sample. If the variance of \( X \) is \( \sigma^{2} \), then \( 96\sigma^{2} \) is equal to \( \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \).