Magic Mushroom,
You say that: "the E-7 is the ONLY available option which meets requirements now for a wide area C2 asset while producing accurate air, maritime and EW situational awareness."
You say that the Israeli G550 offering "lacks the C2 capacity we require."
Presumably this is down to crew numbers, and presumably you'd make the same criticism of Saab's Globaleye?
Is this the reason why Saab "bizarrely" chose to offer the Erieye ER on an A330 platform? I was astonished that they didn't offer the GlobalEye - which is certified, flying and can be demonstrated, and for which they have a hot production line?
The GlobalEye would seem to be less of a 'risk' than an as-yet untried and unproven Wedgetail upgrade, surely? And would offer a ground surveillance and GMTI capability far above anything the Wedgetail offers.......
Don't you think that properly analysing and evaluating the alternatives would have been sensible, rather than going single-source?