’Diversity, inclusion, equity’ at NASA

American Thinker ^ | 17 Sep, 2024 | Joshua Foxworth

[bk1000]

When you hire an engineer you expect a white guy with plastic rimmed glasses, bad haircut, and wearing a short sleeve dress shirt, who can tell you about the hot/crazy matrix.

[voicereason]

And it is DoD too, not just NASA that does this.

It's an absolute joke and a waste of time/money.

I've seen the set-asides on the DoD side go to a small business (women, minority, veteran, etc.) only to come back to us because they couldn't make the products the contract they bid on required.

It was an interesting conversation with the Program Manager and contracting office when they told us we only won 80% of the contract, even though we were the only company in the industry that could produce what was needed for the contract.

So the contract office wanted us to be the Prime for 80%, and yet gave away another 20% to the minority-owned business which they wanted to buy from us and then pass it through to the DoD. When I received the quote from this other business, I just "No-quoted" it. That caused a bit of a stir because now there was a contract that couldn't be completed by this other vendor. Luckily, we had a really good Program Manager to work it.

[OftheOhio]

bureaucracy is always the death of any project, not counting politicians. I remember when president Reagan lit a fire in our minds and hearts of seeing an American streaking across the sky like a meteor. The X-30 program (funded by Nasa) made some incredible achievements in a short period of time before it was later gutted. What have we done with hypersonics 35 years later. There are some smaller company efforts now that appear promising.

[Liz]

Your govt at work (groan).

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Years ago, “NASA decided?” they employed too many white male engineers.
<><>However, there simply weren’t enough of other races, opposite sex, to hire
<><>even with racially biased preference policies NASA put in place.
<><>The solution was to let people of other races form “companies”(subcontrators).
<><> NASA gave the subcontrators engineering jobs at Lockheed, Boeing, NASA.
<><>The artificial companies would then hire those same white male engineers.
<><>The white engineers do the same work but are counted toward minority statistics.

[ridesthemiles]

IMO-—MUSK IS GOING TO BURY NASA

[Organic Panic]

Whitey on the moon.

NASA is a clown show to keep egg heads employed. Screw em.

[minnesota_bound]

This type of hiring is done in construction contracts with state and federal government all the time. The contractor is fronted by a minority. Everything is a lie with democrats.