Someone in my family's full time job is to submit proposals for a fortune 500 company to try and win government grants (mostly to DOE, DOD, and DARPA). She is very skilled at this high paying job and has a support team of engineers, accountants, lawyers, etc. that work to put together these proposals to meet the guidelines that the Gover…
Someone in my family's full time job is to submit proposals for a fortune 500 company to try and win government grants (mostly to DOE, DOD, and DARPA). She is very skilled at this high paying job and has a support team of engineers, accountants, lawyers, etc. that work to put together these proposals to meet the guidelines that the Government Department outlines. There are still hundreds of billions of not yet allocated funds from Build Back Better & inflation reduction act.
This person now realizes they could lose their job but acknowledges that the majority of this funding is waste due to a myriad of reasons. Virtually all Biden admin grants have DEI requirements, they are encouraged to partner with certain NGO's and contractors that will get part of the funding (politicians friends and families), and they have to operate the project within a very bureaucratic framework of reporting, meeting deadlines, reporting, etc.
Overall, the biggest obstacle she runs into is that her company can have a hard time justifying the cost share for these politically targeted projects. Usually the proposals require a cost share of 10-20% and her company can't justify outlaying their own millions as the project's often are pie in the sky or have so much bureaucratic waste that they don't even expect to recover their 10-20% investment on woke government dictated projects.
I told her she should go work for DOGE as she knows the system inside & out.
In general, these grants are not intended to produce tangible, useful results. Rather, they are intended to funnel money to favored NGOs and individuals. Perhaps your family member's employer can glean some benefit from the project, but that is purely coincidental.
Someone in my family's full time job is to submit proposals for a fortune 500 company to try and win government grants (mostly to DOE, DOD, and DARPA). She is very skilled at this high paying job and has a support team of engineers, accountants, lawyers, etc. that work to put together these proposals to meet the guidelines that the Government Department outlines. There are still hundreds of billions of not yet allocated funds from Build Back Better & inflation reduction act.
This person now realizes they could lose their job but acknowledges that the majority of this funding is waste due to a myriad of reasons. Virtually all Biden admin grants have DEI requirements, they are encouraged to partner with certain NGO's and contractors that will get part of the funding (politicians friends and families), and they have to operate the project within a very bureaucratic framework of reporting, meeting deadlines, reporting, etc.
Overall, the biggest obstacle she runs into is that her company can have a hard time justifying the cost share for these politically targeted projects. Usually the proposals require a cost share of 10-20% and her company can't justify outlaying their own millions as the project's often are pie in the sky or have so much bureaucratic waste that they don't even expect to recover their 10-20% investment on woke government dictated projects.
I told her she should go work for DOGE as she knows the system inside & out.
In general, these grants are not intended to produce tangible, useful results. Rather, they are intended to funnel money to favored NGOs and individuals. Perhaps your family member's employer can glean some benefit from the project, but that is purely coincidental.
Money for nuthin, chicks for free.