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However, those are not the only two Indian outsourcing firms Boeing uses.

Of course not; it has international relationships to make international sales. However those were the companies Bloomberg and its sources were complaining about and it had nothing to do with the problem in question. Boeing is competing for sales with Airbus. Neither company can survive without international sales of magnitude.

"Sales are another reason to send the work overseas. In exchange for an $11 billion order in 2005 from Air India, Boeing promised to invest $1.7 billion in Indian companies. That was a boon for HCL and other software developers from India, such as Cyient, whose engineers were widely used in computer-services industries but not yet prominent in aerospace."

However this could be related, and it points to American engineers who decided it was not a safety issue: an honest, and expensive mistake.

"Boeing also has disclosed that it learned soon after Max deliveries began in 2017 that a warning light that might have alerted crews to the issue with the sensor wasn’t installed correctly in the flight-display software. A Boeing statement in May, explaining why the company didn’t inform regulators at the time, said engineers had determined it wasn’t a safety issue.

“Senior company leadership,” the statement added, “was not involved in the review.”"