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Re:Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy by specialist on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:47AM (#30148414)
The exciting part of OWS is "expediting". The mandate and power to just get things done. What HBR might call a "policy tiger team".

We currently have multiple crises that would benefit tremendously from the OWS strategy.

Rebuilding our electrical grid for one. It has to be done. Every rational person knows this and agrees. And yet we. just. can't. budge.

More than capital (investment), we need some bulldozers to push thru all the jurisdictional bullshit. Make us some omelets.

The challenges of building transmission in the US, and how to overcome them, with Liza Reed

https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-the-challenges-of-buil...

How Are We Going to Build All That Clean Energy Infrastructure?

https://www.niskanencenter.org/report-how-are-we-going-to-bu...

There are perhaps dozens, maybe 100s, of such sticky wicket policy traps which would benefit from some Operation Warp Speed style mojo.

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