It’s a handle by which government in yet another way wants to pick up and pet the golden goose... and feed it some tidbits... and eventually chain it heavily if not strangle it utterly to death.
Consider heavier than air flight. The government arranged for Langley to perform research, and he demonstrated feasibility with an unmanned system, but his expensive manned demonstrations failed. He scaled some parts wrong, and gave up.
The Wright brothers had to perform research economically, and invented the wind tunnel, developed coordinated control laws using kites. Their propeller efficiency was within 5% of that used even today. Their methods worked. they filed their patents, and made millions, if not the “1/3rd of the value of any aircraft made using their methods”. They had incentive to not give up, incentive to cut costs, incentive to assure their research time and dollar was efficient.
yup and that is the all out truth. another gimmich by the commies in charge