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If LM claim to have cracked the code (pun intended) on how to avoid that particular conundrum, I have a bridge the JPO might be interested in buying...
I worked for a chip company years ago and sudden military orders were always nice because a box of obsolete chips on a shelf that had previously been worth nothing would suddenly be worth many thousands of dollars. It was even more expensive when we had to do a new production run of half a dozen wafers specifically for them.
But there's no reason why you can't replace the hardware as well as the software, so long as the aircraft is designed to make that easy. The problem is the amount of testing you need every time you do so; I guess the question is whether that costs much more than the testing you'd need to do for pure software upgrades.