Nelson testifies cost-plus contracts have been a “plague” on NASA

Re:Nelson testifies cost-plus contracts have been a “plague”... by NovemberWhiskey on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @03:20PM (#31264694)

I suppose it depends on the nature of the contract; for launch services I guess that makes sense; but for a development project, it's different - if you give Lockheed Martin the contract to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle, you're probably going to need to revise the requirements through the lifetime of the project, and it's not very credible to say "OK, Boeing's taking over from here" for the change requests.

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Re:Nelson testifies cost-plus contracts have been a “plague”... by rozab on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @05:42PM (#31266214)

Commercial Crew is a development project, I don't see what the difference is.

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Re:Nelson testifies cost-plus contracts have been a “plague”... by Robotbeat on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @03:26PM (#31264745)

Funny you say that because NASA is taking a very similar approach to the HLS lander for Artemis. They did start with just one provider (as Starship is the only one they could afford) but they’re trying to include a second lander provider ASAP, partly by the insistence of Congress (who doesn’t like that their typical defense contractor donors didn’t get picked for the first HLS lander).

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