Also, keyword final assembly. This is where you're delivering a freshly manufactured main fuselage, engines, avionics package, etc., to be fitted together and finished, not necessarily a facility that manufactures any of those major pieces.
Makes sense in having a second "final assembly" facility at Palmdale, got lots of open land there, could build B-21s in near parallel fashion. USAF/USG serious about getting 21s built, tested and fielded. It's a shame at least 75 B-2's were not built, combination of cold war ending and politics, primarily the latter.
 

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