Warren Davidson: “SpaceX out there, you know, gave us deep space launch…”

“How important is it to maybe use some of what we're learning from DPA to look at the rest of the procurement process or be able to waive even our own procurement process? And I think just to illustrate, you know, SpaceX out there, you know, gave us deep space launch capability that we were for a while depending on Russia. You know, Atlas is still under development using status quo traditional procurement operations. So at a certain level, the supply chain arbitrage was really part of the success story there.” (03:12–03:20)

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