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More middlemen these days, all looking for their handouts.
by asciimov 3y ago
More middlemen these days, all looking for their handouts.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoMore middlemen? (pdf warning) https://media.defense.gov/2022/Feb/15/2002939087/-1/-1/1/STATE-OF-COMPETITION-WITHIN-THE-DEFENSE-INDUSTRIAL-BASE.PDF https://media.defense.gov/2022/Feb/15/2002939087/-1/-1/1/STA... > Since the 1990s, the defense sector has consolidated substantially, transitioning from 51 to 5 aerospace and defense prime contractors. Also- if an entity is performing work under contract and gets paid for it how is that a handout?
- NovemberWhiskey 3y agoI'm not necessarily agreeing with the poster above, but surely the number of prime contractors is not relevant to the number of non-prime sub-contractors?
- stetrain 3y agoArtemis is less expensive than Apollo, at least so far. There is definitely a fighting over handouts component, but this mostly seems to be at the Congressional level where they legislate how the rocket will be built and what kind of boosters it will have, and those requirements have a habit of lining up nicely with existing defense contractors in the states they represent.