The Air Force plans to purchase 80–100 LRS-B aircraft at a cost of $550 million each, at 2010 prices.
So in 5 years the cost went from $550M a piece to $800M? That's a lot of inflation!
Yep, maybe COLAs and the CPI should be determined by the cost of armaments?
A Boeing 777 cost $320 million each. Remove seats, change and strengthen wings, add bomb bay doors and add slope and curves to fuselage and change tail configuration and remove the wifi entertainment system. Still expensive but I would think still cheaper then what is propose. They could buy B1 bombers at about $300 million each. They already work well.