NASA Squandering Technology Commercialization Opportunities 48
coondoggie writes "The commercialization of all manner of space technologies has always been a forte of NASA, but the space agency faces a number of economic and internal challenges if that success is to continue. A report by released this week (PDF) by NASA Inspector General Paul Martin that assesses NASA's technology commercialization efforts is highly critical of the space agency's ability to identify and get important technologies out of the lab and out the door to commercial applications."
Off by quite a bit. (Score:5, Informative)
Note that NASA's proposed budget for 2012 is $17 Billion [wikipedia.org] and that represents a cut from 2011. You are also low for the cost of the US military, which weighed in at $684 Billion [wikipedia.org] in 2010.
I know that this doesn't impact the point you were making, but if you're going to put down actual numbers you should try to make sure they are at least close to truthful.