And who is going to set those milestones and hand-offs? Sure, yeah, the USG can try that, but for the millions(?) of contracts you'd need over years of hand-of

And who is going to set those milestones and hand-offs? Sure, yeah, the USG can try that, but for the millions(?) of contracts you'd need over years of hand-off with red-tape and poorly paid 'refs' with no experience in the field and some dubious enforcement mechanism of fines or jail time? It's a totally unworkable system prima face that just ties things up for no reason.