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It is my opinion that this award to a French conglomerate is a political move by our leaders to prop up the failing French economy and gain their support for future cooperation with the Iranian situation. This deal will shore up the faltering French economy which bye the way is actually reeling from recent bank frauds estimated to be north of $10 billion. I would imagine there are many more perks to this decision but you can see my point. Another part of this could be the award for the CSAR aircraft. That decision will be made soon and I suspect Boeing will be placated by this smaller award.
The main thing Boeing must do at this time is to execute! The 787 testing is proceeding and in most cases the product exceeds the failure thresholds imposed on it. All Boeing has to do is get that aircraft to certification this year and start delivering. The backlog for this plane goes out years and Boeing gets paid per delivery. The manufacturing of the 787 has been slow to speed but word is that most of the problems are behind now and and for even greater production volume, the idea of additional manufacturing lines has been thrown around. The 787 will help Boeing to continue to be the best aerospace company in the World.