Awarding a company a government-funded monopoly leads to higher prices? Goldernit, who would have guessed that?
Why is the F135 lobby so desperate? One possibility: they need to get the alternate engine dead and buried before they stick the Pentagon with the real bill for the engine.
JSF Engine "Competition" Story Rises From The Grave
Here's another question: What happens when the Super Hornet line closes and the F-35 itself becomes a monopoly?