SpaceX !
Now if Elon Musk were to create OceanX and build ships for the U.S. Navy they'd be the best ships in the world; most advanced and cost-effectively built!
Any government program particularly DOD programs if large enough (and by large enough I mean lucrative!) no matter how necessary eventually evolve into a jobs program to keep congressmen and senators in power! That’s all the space program is now. I am not sure what the solution for this is. Let’s not forget that Musk built his empire on a lot of government subsidies. I think some of enterprises are finally making money commercially. If government is the customer, you have to go to government to get the requirements as well as the funding. (If commercial - you look at the market and generate your own “design\build to” requirements!) With government requirements they are in the driver’s seat. That means you have to do the political dancing with congresscritters\senators, etc. which means you head down that same path to be nothing more then a jobs programs.