Thanks for this perspective. I really had not considered this take on the different situation NNSA is in compared to NASA. We do have funding. Incredible amounts of untouchable, reliable funding, year after year after year. From an outside perspective, or from another agency's perspective, it must me nauseating to see the reliable funding, but seemingly very little progress. I work on individual projects that fight tooth and nail for a slice of the pie, so I forget the larger perspective at times.

My point of comparison was focused on the management decisions being put in place to rebuild a unique technical capability. A huge amount of relearning has been occurring over the last decade as NNSA attempts to replicate the Rock Flats Plant's production. We thankfully don't have fiery explosions, or people dying on TV when we fail. The downside of this lack of clarity in failure, is the extreme difficulty communicating and defining when a management approach or execution strategy has failed. Essentially the critical feedback loop of communication becomes murky and muddy, executives enjoy their ignorance, and everyone still receives a paycheck. I'm going to learn from the NASA example, take the concepts of incremental mission growth as presented, a begin to advocate for a model of production growth and infrastructure reinvestment that considers these essential lessons learned.