NASA’s Orion Program Plagued by Excessively Generous Contractor Bonuses. Ernst Calls for Reform
Those outside of the immediate gravitational pull of bureaucratic Washington DC may not know how the game works.
(From The Epoch Times)
NASA officials give such generous and unearned performance bonuses on the Orion space capsule development program that contractor ratings are all but meaningless, according to the agency’s inspector general (IG).
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) believes the IG report points to the continuing need for a reform proposal she introduced in the Senate, the “Bogus Bonus Ban Act of 2019.”
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