Perhaps I mistyped NSF is indeed just as political as it ever was. So is the Congressional SBIR\STTR system. Which is what I assume you mean by Congress voting a replacement. Many of the RFPs from this program a very very wired to a particular contractor. That is one who has political pull. I’ve been involved on both sides of this. “Big Daddy’s” favorite often gets the cash. Have you ever read David Brinkley’s book “Washington Goes to War”. There’s a humorous passage where some ‘sweet young thing’ in a government office who’s response to anything and everything regarding her job was ‘My uncle is senator...’. I saw similar things all the time.
Anyway, I think this has been talked to death.
The corruption never goes away, it just moves. But we are told it is fixed when they move it.
do i really have use use the word sarcasm?