NASA Hoping To Create Super X-Prizes

Rei writes "NASA is attempting to use a strategy of handing out contracts as prizes, akin to the Ansari X-Prize, instead of the contractor-preferred method of bidding and having payment before work is completed. They are hoping to have prizes worth as much as one billion dollars. The only hitch? Congress won't let them."

Comments

I'd like to have seen that proposal

[BitwizeGHC]

Head of NASA: Mr. Senator, in light of the recent (airquotes) "X-Prize" I'd like for NASA to receive funding to sponsor contract prizes of its own, in amounts up to..... (pinky to corner of mouth) ONE BILLION DOLLARS.

First Order of Business:

[Anonymous Coward]

NASA needs to create a $10 million X-Prize going to the congressman that can secure them the most funding.