While not wishing to condone high-spending programmes across the board, this has to be seen in context of $65Bn prog cost for less than 200 F22 - vs $350Bn for 2500 F35. And lets not do the B2!
What has Tiffy cost for 650 ish airframes?
It's not necessarily Dave that's the problem - the procurement system is a challenge all it's own.....