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NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

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404 points voxleone | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 12:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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cheschire ◴[21 Oct 25 13:21 UTC] No.45655449[source]▶
I love how government acquisitions works. A company can fail to deliver the final product, then use the recompete process to win a higher paying contract by using the progress they already made on the previous contract to demonstrate a performance level above their competitors.

Whereas all the competition has to use their own R&D budget to show capability to meet the requirements of the second contract, the winner of the first contract used the government's R&D money to be competitive.

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1. chasd00 ◴[21 Oct 25 14:09 UTC] No.45656017[source]▶
It reminds me how once you get on the preferred vendor list of a large corporation it becomes very very hard to stop getting paid. No matter how bad you screw up you get more projects because, hey, you're on the list. The US Government is the ultimate whale, get on that metaphorical preferred vendor list and you get "money for nothing and chicks for free" forever.