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To me one of the issues is if companies have to toe political lines, then every new change of administration potentially means disruption. The alternative is the government doing more things in-house which pushes up costs.

So in the end this is posturing (aka signaling).

Can Boeing see a conflict of interest via a vis a military conflict and say, no to the DoD because they like some baddie the USG might tangle with? Now in reality this wouldn’t happen because of USG buying power... but put that aside.