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On the defense side, Boeing may be "too big to fail". After the the post Cold War consolidation, losing any of the big 5 USG contractors (Lockheed, Northrop, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics) would blow a huge hole in the industry. It's likely they'll be kept afloat with token contracts until they can get it back together. On the commercial side, Airbus is the only real alternative. I'm sure this is great for them but realistically how much of Boeing's market share could they scale up to fill? Embraer doesn't do large jets and the other manufacturers are Russian and Chinese.

Boing won't be allowed to fail until there's another American company building large passenger aircraft at scale.

Airbus Alabama laughs off in the distance.

For defense purposes, it's desirable to have both the facilities and the full organizational hierarchy under direct legal jurisdiction.

They have a new CEO who's going to try to fix things. I wish him luck.