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NASA inefficiency is driven from the top down, by terrible goals and perverse incentives, mainly inflicted on the agency by lawmakers, but also due to getting s
by pfdietz 1y ago
NASA inefficiency is driven from the top down, by terrible goals and perverse incentives, mainly inflicted on the agency by lawmakers, but also due to getting stuck in a local optimum. It's not bottom up waste and fraud.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> NASA inefficiency is driven from the top down, by terrible goals and perverse incentives To the extent there is documented inefficiency at NASA, it's in the way it manages its contractors for manned exploration. Its science budget is a paragon of institutional efficiency. > It's not bottom up waste and fraud Read the GAO report [1]. (Ctrl + F Bechtel.) But for sake of argument, let's assume this is true. How does cutting the science budget while preserving SLS make sense? [1] https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106256 https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106256
- pfdietz 1y agoIt doesn't make sense.