but then have central government pay X% of the money so that it doesn’t come out of the budget of the specific department (e.g. NASA)
In the implication here that it is Congress who want a diversity of suppliers, whereas NASA doesn’t care as much? That’s an interesting solution.
How would the X% be determined? Would it be the same for each company (except for the leader), or somehow proportional to how much the company is “struggling”?
In the implication here that it is Congress who want a diversity of suppliers, whereas NASA doesn’t care as much?
Yes, I think that’s the implication. I realized it’s not correct but decided to leave it like that. I’m a big picture kinda guy; someone else can sort out the details!
I guess it might be more like a combined NASA / Space Force high level strategic fund providing the subsidy. So that individual ‘low level’ programmes within NASA / Space Force then don’t have to worry too much about the long term strategic goals like dissimilar redundancy, and can mostly just focus on their own needs.
In the implication here that it is Congress who want a diversity of suppliers, whereas NASA doesn’t care as much? That’s an interesting solution.
How would the X% be determined? Would it be the same for each company (except for the leader), or somehow proportional to how much the company is “struggling”?
Yes, I think that’s the implication. I realized it’s not correct but decided to leave it like that. I’m a big picture kinda guy; someone else can sort out the details!
I guess it might be more like a combined NASA / Space Force high level strategic fund providing the subsidy. So that individual ‘low level’ programmes within NASA / Space Force then don’t have to worry too much about the long term strategic goals like dissimilar redundancy, and can mostly just focus on their own needs.