Let’s be realistic. NASA can’t even fund CCDEV the way it needs to be funded. It is too much in the stranglehold of Congress, which has mandated the development of the expensive and ultimately to be cancelled jobs program called the Senate Launch System (SLS). The Air Force has a much easier time getting done what needs to be done. Congress doesn’t micromanage the DOD the way it does NASA. Contrary to your last comment, this is clearly a case where a military project can be easily convertable to a civilian product with great benefit to the civilain economy.

While people may think that it’s just a means to an end or something in that fashion, it should clearly work in another way and is just opening the potential for more resources getting thrown into useless astronomically expensive military projects with little to no civilian benefit.