{"id":55472,"date":"2022-05-03T17:45:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T09:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ars-technica-nasa-chief-nelson-calls-cost-plus-contracts-a-plague\/"},"modified":"2022-05-03T17:45:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T09:45:22","slug":"ars-technica-nasa-chief-nelson-calls-cost-plus-contracts-a-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ars-technica-nasa-chief-nelson-calls-cost-plus-contracts-a-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"Ars Technica: NASA Chief Nelson Calls Cost-plus Contracts a \u2018Plague\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>NASA<\/strong> Administrator Bill Nelson appeared before a US Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday to discuss NASA\u2019s budget request for the upcoming fiscal year. Then, quite unexpectedly, he dropped a bombshell.<\/p>\n<p>After his opening remarks, Nelson was asked what, in his opinion, was the biggest threat to NASA\u2019s goal of landing humans on the Moon by 2025. Nelson responded that the agency needed competition in its program to develop a Human Landing System. In other words, he wanted Congress to support NASA\u2019s request for funding to develop a second lander alongside SpaceX\u2019s Starship vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>But Nelson didn\u2019t stop there. He said Congress needs to fund this lander contract with a fixed-price award, which only pays companies when they reach milestones. This contracting mechanism is relatively new for the space agency, which traditionally has used \u201ccost-plus\u201d contracts for large development programs. Such awards pay contractors their expenses, plus a fee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em>Read more from Ars Technica &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Administrator Bill Nelson appeared before a US Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday to discuss NASA\u2019s budget request for the upcoming fiscal year. Then, quite unexpectedly, he dropped a bombshell. After his opening remarks, Nelson was asked what, in his opinion, was the biggest threat to NASA\u2019s goal of landing humans on the Moon by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}