We just rejected a military contract because the company wanting to hire us sent us the most ridiculous NDA I have seen in a while. The first job amounted to t

We just rejected a military contract because the company wanting to hire us sent us the most ridiculous NDA I have seen in a while. The first job amounted to thermal design and simulation. Two weeks of work, maybe three. The way these contracts work, we might not hear from them for a year after that, or five. In exchange for two weeks of work they wanted us to sign a wide-and-deep five-year NDA. Five years. For two weeks of work. What’s worse is the work did not require disclosure of anything proprietary at all. Power, area and environmental conditions. That’s it. It’s just silly.