Brian Berger has a preview of the Aldridge Commission report. This is the part that (obviously) piqued my interest:

Specifically, the commission will recommend that:

...NASA allow the private industry "to assume the primary role of providing services to NASA, and most immediately in accessing low-Earth orbit..."

I'll be interested in seeing the elaboration on this topic. As usual, the devil will be in the details.

Yep. If they aren't forced to move away from cost+ into something more vendor/customer based (FAR Part 12, I think) then it probably won't change much. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall watching Walker and Tyson discuss this one.

But none of the items in that report came as a suprise other than the "Technical Advisory Board" within NASA. Not sure what the usefullness of that is unless it has some teeth to it. In business there's a difference between an Board of Advisors and a Board of Directors: you can ignore your board of advisors if you want to. A Board of Directors can fire the CEO if they want. (Hence the reason most startups these days don't have one).

Curiously, there is still no link to this article from NASAWatch, despite the fact that it is the most significant space policy story of the moment.