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To be honest, though, its not like any of the other aerospace companies are any better. Airbus, for example, experienced huge delays in getting the A380 built, simply because its engineers were using two different versions of the same CAD tool (http://www.cadalyst.com/management/what-grounded-airbus-a380...).

Unlike software, which is always on schedule.

Not if you are part of the highway bandits!

The US Government (Department of Defense and "Intelligence Community") doesn't have a lot of choice. They've let the already incestuous aerospace industry contract to about 4 main companies, and those 4 don't compete with Boeing in the passenger aircraft space.

Boeing probably hasn't had a "farm team" of design engineers for 20 or 25 years, now. Designing a new passenger jet isn't something that comes around more than once in a lifetime.

Politically Corrupt? That is a fairly large blanket statement your throwing out there.