The DoDs primary concern is access to launch capability. Not price. SpaceX achieving a market monopoly would only be a concern to the DoD in that it would poten

The DoDs primary concern is access to launch capability. Not price. SpaceX achieving a market monopoly would only be a concern to the DoD in that it would potentially limit the number of companies capable of providing launch services. SpaceX is a private company (regardless of how many gov $ it receives) and can’t simply be restructured like a government agency could if it got into serious enough trouble. (Legal, financial, managerial, market, etc.) Since SpaceX can expose itself to potentially fatal risk (by definition), it is in the government’s national security interests to spread that risk among several companies, regardless of the price tag.