Well said.
The definition of Deep State has changed over the past 20 years.
Scientific progress is not about how much money you have, but about creativity.
Go back to the days of Kelly Johnson’s Skunk Works. He was light years ahead of the rest.
Novelist Larry Bod wrote a book called Lash Up. The Chinese were destroying American satellites and we had no way to combat it. To create a new space weapon would take a decade or better because of the government procurement and oversight rules.
A small team was given Carte Blanche authority and budget to do whatever it took to make it happen and skip any normal channels they found necessary.
It was in interesting concept. Of course, it also requires honorable men, which we are woefully short of in DC