Larry Bond wrote a novel about the need to get a weaponized aircraft in space in a very short time frame. The characters were granted authority to do what needed to be done and to be able to bypass all the time wasting bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo in favor of the critical mission.
After reading I wrote the author and suggested the book be re-written as a business manual. He told me he’d never thought of it that way.
Side note, my kid works in the space industry and I think he’s secretly hoping to get drafted into Space Force.
Does your kid realize that Space Force will involve sitting in an office building and looking at data on computer screens in 12 hour shifts?