Yes, in fact, because it was part of the contract stipulation by NASA. And apparently Blue Origin/National Team's proposal scored poorly in part because they wa

Yes, in fact, because it was part of the contract stipulation by NASA. And apparently Blue Origin/National Team's proposal scored poorly in part because they wanted to keep some of the data rights from NASA. And this is just a sort of contractor arrangement. NASA didn't build the Apollo lunar module with civil servants, either, they hired contractors. Also, this isn't a Tesla project.