[rtkwe]

Plus once the contract is signed and you're a few years into the process there's not really any competition to speak of. Sure the govt could scrap the whole thing and go with another competitor, but in some industries there's effectively one option now for a particular thing and for larger projects like jets it's a decades long process to get to start building anything, and there are of course costs and delays associate with that because you have to start the same broken process over again. To top it all off the next contractor doesn't have much of an incentive to do things cheaply either because they're in the same broken system.