I got a kick out of Boeing’s offer to “help”.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/08/02/215865/boeing-calls-for-missile-competition.html

Don’t know how sincere this comment (in bold) is but if they are that’s pretty big of them.

“The air force has discussed options to replace JASSM with either a new air-launched version of the Raytheon BGM-109 Tomahawk, the Boeing AGM-84H Standoff Land Attack Missile – Expanded Response (SLAM-ER) or the MBDA Storm Shadow.

Boeing says it can offer the SLAM-ER or the Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missile to meet the USAF’s immediate needs. However, the company believes that JASSM is “critical to national defence and we would like to see it succeed”.”