Comment on The struggle
Dadifer@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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.
Comment on The struggle
Dadifer@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 5 weeks 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