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>Not every piece of procured hardware is a massive compromise, No but most, if not all, government projects of hardware like this usually have all sorts of cos
by ryanmercer 8y ago
>Not every piece of procured hardware is a massive compromise,
No but most, if not all, government projects of hardware like this usually have all sorts of cost inflation due to the fact they use companies/contractors that have made it their business to extract every last cent out of taxpayers. It's why companies like SpaceX are important for the future of space travel, they're offering considerably cheaper alternatives to old-school government contractors because they aren't billing you 100$ for a 1$ widget, they're billing you 11$ for a 6$ widget.
- asdsa5325 8y ago> government projects of hardware like this usually have all sorts of cost inflation due to the fact they use companies/contractors that have made it their business to extract every last cent out of taxpayers Clearly you are not familiar with the government contractor world. It's actually the opposite. Government contracts are regularly audited and contractor's profit margins are tightly capped. The major money leakage is when the government buys products from companies where the majority of revenues are not from government contracting. Those companies don't have to follow the same laws about profit margins.
- ryanmercer 8y agoThen explain how the private space industry is doing things for considerably cheaper companies like Lockheed Martin and Boeing.
- asdsa5325 8y agoLockheed and Boeing are very much involved in space. They just don't build rockets like SpaceX, because they take lower risk projects to avoid being propped up by investors. FYI, one of the biggest space companies is Orbital ATK (now owned by NG).