> How do you schedule a rocket launch when someone else owns the 50-year-old range radar equipment that keeps executing HCF?
Recognize that even if you don't own the radar equipment, it is impacting your ability to deliver value, so spend the necessary funds to get them to replace the radar equipment with something that doesn't have that problem.
> Recognize that even if you don't own the radar equipment, it is impacting your ability to deliver value, so spend the necessary funds to get them to replace the radar equipment with something that doesn't have that problem.
And then convince the Air Force to certify and let you use your new radar for their payloads.
Senate was just a filler for `important political position that gets to decide stuff'. Sorry, I'm not too familiar with the intricacies of the American machine.
The Congress, including the Senate, absolutely does vote on the laws that set the parameters with which the military's acquisition process (among other military policies and processes) must conform.
And that would keep things on schedule? Have you looked at the US governance system recently? Nothing is on schedule there except the clamour for reelection.
No mere customer will get the Air Force to replace their ancient and crumbling radars, or, moreover, deal with all the various resource contention issues at the Cape. SpaceX is instead in the process of dealing with the problem in a tractable way: by building their own damn spaceport.
