• @halcyoncmdr
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    04 months ago

    There are literally decades-long proposals, initial R&D and prototyping for big defense contracts.

    No, they aren’t taking years to award a new contract for the paper provider, but they are for new weapons and vehicles.

    • @[email protected]
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      34 months ago

      Yeah because they’re so big. This guy is not asking for a grant for 2000ppl, multi-year project around nuclear fusion, it’s just him and a couple students mucking around in a petri dish