Time to compete with price and service, not just lobby politicians, Lockheed and Boeing.
SpaceX’s success forced its primary competitors—longtime military contractors like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman—to compete on price and innovation for the first time in years. Add in Bezos’s company Blue Origin, with its own Silicon Valley-inflected approach to space, and the US boasts perhaps the deepest industrial base for space-launch in world history.
The Air Force will only choose two companies to fly five years’ worth of national-security missions, a prize of more than a billion dollars in annual revenue split 60-40 between the winning companies. The losing firms will be left to compete for civil or commercial launches without the support of the traditional third leg of the rocket-business stool.
It's a good thing. But MIC is a huge old buddy system. Foot in the door is likely based on who you know, not your ability. That's just how i see it, a bit cynical.
https://qz.com/1603659/elon-musk-and-jeff-bezos-wrangle-over-us-military-rockets/