Regarding Space... SpaceX's primary competitor in the US (when it comes to government launches) is a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin called ULA

Regarding Space... SpaceX's primary competitor in the US (when it comes to government launches) is a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin called ULA. ULA receives a _billion_ dollars a year just to maintain their ability to launch rockets (they still get paid enormous sums of money for each launch on top of the subsidy). On top of that, they were recently awarded an 11 billon dollar 'block buy' contract covering launches over the next five years. The award occurred suspiciously just before SpaceX was supposed to be certified to launch DoD payloads (and therefore would have been eligible to compete for those launches). Note: That 11 billion figure doesn't include the 5 billion dollars worth of annual subsidies they will receive over the duration of the contract