Seems to have worked fine to make the Pentagon anxious to get the negotiation done rather than sit on the whole thing for as long as humanly possible (what I’d

Seems to have worked fine to make the Pentagon anxious to get the negotiation done rather than sit on the whole thing for as long as humanly possible (what I’d expect as a default from a bureaucracy of that size): > “Negotiations are very much underway. Everyone in our building knows we’re going to pay [SpaceX],” the senior Pentagon official told CNN, adding that the department is eager to have commitments in writing “because we worry [Musk]’ll change his mind.” Whether this was a deliberate negotiation strategy or a simple case of Musk being Musk in public, I can’t tell.