Engines, sorry. You've got me scratching my head over your last remarks.
One thing I do know is that committing to an 'off the shelf' E-2 would not be cheap.
Military procurement and cheap are words rarely found in the same sentence. But the cost difference between off-the-shelf and new dev...
I'd also suggest that one area of our capabilities that we do not want to hand over to Uncle Sam is our organic C4ISR.
Ditto the remarks of the representative from Tennesse, re. organic capability. We are hardly world class in this area.
Nationally, for MRA4, should it ever actually make it into service, all the LINK11/16 is Boeing; as with the rest of the mission electronics.
E3D, well I hardly need state the obvious.
JJ