John Sams may refer to: (wikipedia)
Our U.S. Air Force customer and our Congress want to have a competition. That's what we at Boeing are prepared to do.
Long-lead suppliers are doing work on that 180th aircraft and in some cases have completed work.
But we want to give the Air Force the option of exploring all of their thought processes with (the Pentagon) and not have to cross a trip wire from which there is no return.