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

Congress?

[Anonymous Coward]

And since when has congress approved of anything related to the technology community that benefited it greatly?

Re:A billion dollars is chump change

[DAldredge]

Till NASA gets better management I thing we should be another CBG.

Sounds like a MasterCard commercial.

[Lethyos]

Tax cut for the wealthy: $1,600,000,000,000; Iraq war: $287,000,000,000; $1,000,000,000 denied for scientific research and the advancement of the human species: priceless.