All I can say is that with the bucks being spent on missile defense in the Pacific, someone somewhere finally gets the ChiComs. So I imagine that they will get this program and eventually get close to the original flight. The same thing happened with the C17 - it took them a few years to get order back their original numbers. Also, there are a great many people (mostly Dems) that now look pretty silly about only building 21 B2s. I am a little more optimistic here, assuming that Bush gets another term.
Bottom line: Lock in the program and spend the money now because 1) you never know what the Dems will do down the road, and 2) in the next deacde we will have build out the bomber wings and the strategic subs. That is what we get for letting Clinton in the WH for 8 years.
Please see my response to the newbie who took issue with my assessment of the "cold" techies.