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After the town hall, I remain cautiously optimistic about NASA's "Competition Model 2.0" approach.

Chase Million@millionconcepts.com

My first pass assessment is that this is probably good. It will annoy people who have spent a lot of time and resources preparing for the pre-existing AO process. It will still require some assessment of engineering approach on spec. But the current paths are indeed both expensive and slow.

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Chase Million

@millionconcepts.com

My biggest concerns are: (1) Despite trying to reduce proposal burden through reduced Step 1 requirements, there will still be prisoner's dilemma incentives to do way more. (2) Cost and timeline estimates need to be realistic, or they will never be met. Scientists aren't why missions go over budget.