Nope. Orion will be another gov program: kick out the schedule, re-baseline it, change managers...repeat over and over until the program does a name change to hide the lack of progress.
Contractors love it, they just keep sending those invoices.
This is the way all of our government works, including the military. The politicians and the Generals at the top are not there to protect, help, or advance our country anymore. Since the 1960s the engineers and scientists who wanted to make things happen were weeded out for the more bureaucratic types that plod along and are reluctant to either take chances or change things if necessary.
We went from Project Mercury to Apollo in less than a decade . We had entire ICBM weapons systems placed on full Alert in two years or less from the time of Congressional approval and funding. The B-52's initial design was done on a napkin in a motel room over the course of one weekend and that aircraft is still the backbone of our bomber force to this day. Now, we can't create anything in less than a decade or more.
I fully understand that the extremely high technology we use today is much more complicated but it is the government bureaucratic stasis that has created the spot we are in today.
“Contractors love it, they just keep sending those invoices.”
No we don’t. Maybe our book keepers do but the engineers and mangers hate getting jerked around and then blamed for lack of performance.