Somewhat related: >US May Need to Nationalize Military Aircraft Industry, USAF Says https://www.defenseone.com/business/2020/07/us-may-need-nationalize-milita

Somewhat related: >US May Need to Nationalize Military Aircraft Industry, USAF Says https://www.defenseone.com/business/2020/07/us-may-need-nationalize-military-aircraft-industry-usaf-says/166894/ https://www.defenseone.com/business/2020/07/us-may-need-nati... Probably not serious consideration at this point, but the salient TL;DR: it's hard to retain talent and industrial base when there's so few engineering projects. Talent leaves if they only get to do 1 major project throughout their career. So here's busy work. Some of it might be productive. Though I'm sure has more to do with Boeing needing more dough after losing 60 orders this month, 800 so far this year.