“Boeing should be allowed to make a reasonable profit from their operations”
When a big program (or any program) over runs it is NOT that company making more profit. Those are costs. They are paying engineers and subcontractors that money. Contracts don’t allow you to just randomly start adding more to them. At every stage of an ‘over run’ the government has oversight and can pull the plug. Contracts don’t overrun unless the program office (the government) allows it to happen.