ORAC:
OK, I am done slamming my head on the desk.
Doing that drives the price per unit up further. Fine. Let's never ever learn a lesson from 45 years of acquisition history? (Not knocking the F-16 and Super Hornets, they are good planes). Putting all our eggs in one basket is a ten year old decision. Congress is invested in this, and Congress raises the money.
As expensive and off time line as this program has become, this will increase the waste and cost, not reduce it, over the life of the program.