[amluto]

One might argue that the US, as a matter of national security, should forcibly fix Boeing. In my mind, the US’s major defense suppliers are too consolidated and too dysfunctional to adequately support the military.

Arguable the US should develop more in-house capabilities (as in government employees producing their own technologies) to compete with Boeing, etc if for no other reason.

[noir_lord]

Or not by things unless there are two viable independent sources for them, forcing the companies to co-operate but not merge, since if you merge no longer two sources, if you don't co-operate no longer two sources.