It's fraud. Both on the part of Boeing and on the part of whoever in government approved that.
800x markup doesn't just happen. You can sneak 10% or 20% surcharge but 800x is so obvious that it's only possible because everyone involved is in on the grift.
It's not a surprise to anyone at the Air Force, they just been getting away with this for so long that they don't even care to hide it. The corruption has been normalized.
Which is why Democrat's obsession with rising taxes and the "pay your fair share" rhetoric pisses me off so much.
Let's start by eliminating 800x waste, 100x waste, 20x waste, 10x waste, 5x waste, 2x waste from government spending and then let's how much money we need to run government. I suspect it would be much less than what US currently takes in taxes.