It is Economic Treason and it weakens US defense. Charging over 20 times the real value of a part or service should be a criminal offense. All monopolistic behaviour should be broken part within the Nation.

Big problem is Raytheon is a monopoly. They're the Walmart of the defense industrial complex.

hmmmm ... Raytheon, missile => trump batleship => railgun. different doctrines away from yesterday's war.

Raytheon / RTX employee here. I can attest this is just the tip of the iceberg in corporate wastefulness. This company excels in having bloated middle management that does nothing and protects itself. Its lifeblood is earned value management theater.

If something they know is underbid is already late and over budget they will shrug and just rebid. I really think it’s done on purpose with the right engineers who understand the real costs excluded from providing inputs on the original bid, so that RTX can win the bid against competitors without being caught in an audit as knowingly withholding information. Then management acts all surprised Pikachu face when things aren’t on schedule and are over budget.

Compounding this is the fact that management will not hire competent engineers much of the time. When they do it’s a freak accident. Part of this is on the government’s head with the way earned value management staffing works. You have to magically staff heads at certain times during the program to keep the schedule. But what do you do the rest of the time with the staff when there is no work? Layoffs, if you can’t find another program for them to work. It’s hard to keep competent people around this way. So for staffing programs to be compliant, middle management will throw whatever warm bodies they can find. This means that for any program about only 10-20% of the engineering staff are doing the real work and are exhausted while the rest are deadweight. Kabuki theater staffing, I call it. If you dare point out these performance issues with employees you will be gaslit. None of these managers want to have to explain to their managers how so many employees that they hired can’t do the work—upper management wouldn’t believe it!

This company is always at least 10 years behind commercial in using basic sane technology. Most of my career has been plagued with using Clearcase instead of a decent tool like git. They just finally started switching over, but not every program can due to how they sold the customer Clearcase too. And some of our US government bureaucracies/agencies are very slow to switch to anything new and will force the contractor to use it too.

There seems to be some sort of sweetheart deal with a certain small AI company that RTX got in bed with and put in some venture capital into. You know, for the employees to use to speed us up. It’s a complete piece of garbage. Everyone at work who has played with other AIs at home keeps asking at company town halls why aren’t we getting Claude? It can run air gapped too with its enterprise plan! But the VP who decided this will not listen. We’re stuck with something that makes destructive edits and has the universe’s smallest context size.

Wraith eon

They aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Look at this Google list of the biggest and most important things they make (this is known as "job security"):

RTX Corporation (Raytheon Technologies) produces some of the world's most significant and recognizable defense systems, with a portfolio that includes major missile systems, air defense platforms, and advanced radars. Key systems include:

- Patriot Air and Missile Defense System One of the most famous and widely-used systems globally, the Patriot is a ground-based system providing defense against aircraft, cruise missiles, and tactical ballistic missiles. It is used by the U.S. and 18 allied nations.
- Tomahawk Cruise Missile A long-range, all-weather, submarine and ship-launched precision strike weapon capable of striking targets from over 1,000 miles away.
- AIM-120 AMRAAM (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile) This is a highly recognizable air-to-air missile used by over 40 militaries worldwide and is the primary radar-guided air-to-air missile on many fighter jets, including the F-35.
- FGM-148 Javelin Weapon System Produced in a joint venture with Lockheed Martin, the Javelin is a highly effective, shoulder-fired, "fire-and-forget" anti-tank guided missile system used extensively by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps.
- AIM-9X Sidewinder Missile The most advanced infrared-tracking, short-range, air-to-air and surface-to-air missile in the world, deployed across numerous air and naval platforms.
- Paveway Laser-Guided Bomb The Paveway series revolutionized tactical air-to-ground warfare by converting unguided bombs into precision-guided munitions using laser guidance technology.
- NASAMS (National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System) A medium-range air defense solution developed in partnership with Kongsberg, which uses the AMRAAM missile as its primary interceptor. It is notably used to protect high-value assets and is provided to Ukraine.
- Iron Dome System RTX partners with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems to produce the interceptors (SkyHunter in the U.S. version) for the Iron Dome, a widely-used short-range air defense system that has a high success rate against rockets and mortars. 

RTX also manufactures numerous other critical systems, including:

- The SPY-6 Family of Radars for the U.S. Navy's ships.
- The Phalanx Close-in Weapon System (CIWS), a rapid-fire, radar-guided gun system that serves as a ship's last line of defense against incoming threats.
- The Excalibur precision-guided artillery projectile.
- The Pratt & Whitney F135 engine, which powers the F-35 fighter jet, the world's most advanced strike fighter.