You know the deal. The missile’s unit cost has doubled from about $400K t about 800K, and it has a 42% failure rate. There are suggestions that it be replaced by equivalent european systems, like the the MBDA Storm Shadow or Taurus KEPD 350.

Congress and the military have not yet done this out of concern for pork and lucrative consulting gigs industrial base.

Well, now we have Boeing calling for it to get the opportunity to manufacture it, because they can do better than Lockheed.

It certainly would be hard for them to do worse.