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minus-square@Dadifer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoNo, it only takes a long time because there’s so little to go around. Do you think defense funding takes months and years to award grants? No.
minus-square@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•3 months agoThere 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.
minus-square@morrowind@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish3•3 months agoYeah 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
No, it only takes a long time because there’s so little to go around. Do you think defense funding takes months and years to award grants? No.
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.
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