I am not sure Lockheedand Agusta understand how much this press tour hurt them. The facts are well known to the Navy, who will be making the decision:
They visited the new "suppliers," dozens of them, who do not deliver any 101 parts now, and must start production and be brought up to qualification standards in months, and then their content must be tested on the real US-101, should it ever get built. A big risk, especally for presidential program!
Many of their suppliers are not even aviation providers, so their risk is higher. One supplier (an Indian Reservation!) makes harnesses for trucks, and will be taught to make aircraft wiring for the first time!
The "US-101" they chose is an RAF Merlin, with British crew, a fact lost on no reporter I talked to. "Where is the real US-101?" they all ask.