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Re:Tesla is outrunning the supply chain crunch by CamperBob2 on Thursday October 21, 2021 @03:14PM (#28949522)
SpaceX does business with the DoD, which can give them supply-chain priority over everyone else for so-called "DPAS rated" purchase orders. [1] If I'm fulfilling a rated order, I not only have the ability, but the obligation, to inform my suppliers that I'm at the front of the line.

Tesla, presumably, isn't able to play that card.

1: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/other-areas/strategic-indu...

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Re:Tesla is outrunning the supply chain crunch by panick21 on Thursday October 21, 2021 @06:52PM (#28951803)
They didn't have that for all the development of Falcon 9. SpaceX deliberately vertically integrated and moved to automotive and other suppliers because space suppliers were so bad.

I would be surprised if they have to use this process all that often, specially now that they have reduced construction rates.

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