Major, major politics involved between Uncle Sam, GE, Pratt, and to a lesser extent Rolls Royce as I remember it. I assume it’s the same now.
Congrats to the P&W engineers; I imagine the boys at GE are steaming right about now.
A mere $15,000,000 per engine? Crap, buy a thousand and maybe get a discount to like $14,000,000?
Deal of the century. /s