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The public sector doesn't have a monopoly on internal politics. Posturing between departments to be included in the next big initiative happens in lots of compa
by stetrain 3y ago
The public sector doesn't have a monopoly on internal politics. Posturing between departments to be included in the next big initiative happens in lots of companies.
- BurningFrog 3y agoThe point of competition is that if 10 deeply flawed organizations take a crack at a problem, they won't all produce garbage.
- sdenton4 3y agoOr! They all produce garbage as they chip away at costs, and make bank telling people what they want to hear. The incentives are all wrong.
- Shinmon 3y agoWhile that might be true the costs of going up there are so high that there won't be 10 companies who get a crack at it. Besides, the radar isn't the only instrument on the rover. There aren't many companies/groups in the world who have the know-how and financial means to do what NASA does here.
- stetrain 3y agoThat's not guaranteed. Really it's a question of incentive structure more than public vs private. For example there are cases I can point to of poor competition and high costs in NASA picking private companies to do big cost-plus development contracts, and cases where they did fixed-price contract bidding among a larger pool of competitors and got much better results.