Striking that the Government is allowing a half a million just for the prototype. I think I need to head to Hobby Lobby and buy me up some ice cream bar sticks and start me some construction.
Went thru the "Buy American" clauses. Ehh, do not be fooled by that one when the Politicians, say "We are building it with American products". There is so much wiggle room for the contractor to buy foreign made goods, COTS or items that are in the FTAs or other agreements. Such a joke the way they lie to us.
BUILD IT!!!!!! Turn back the tide of these illegal grass crawling invaders that I have been going down to the southern border on my own dime for 12 years and rounding up. Spending nights upon nights in the South Texas sugar sand, with the rattlers, mesquite thorns, lions and drug smugglers. Wore out 2 four wheelers and lost tons of other equipment in the sand and brush chasing these stealing, trespassing, stinking wetbacks. Shut 'em down. O, and we do not want to leave out the many different African Nations, Chinese, Cubans, Guatemalans, Brazilians, Somalians, Iranians, Herzegovina(ians)(yeah, can you believe that!!!), many other South American nations......
The complexity of the various levels of the Buy American Act(s) can make for a 500 post thread all by themselves.
We all understand what is trying to be accomplished there but there are such mundane items like cast metal in-wall downspout scuppers, drywall screws, and the like that are just not made in the US at all and haven’t been for many years. The complexity of the wording surrounding terms like “commercially available” can lead to all sorts of compliance issues.