Sure, but... Continuing a legacy like that is cheaper than launching anything else. It's almost like the Airforce retiring the A-10 and supposing a vaporware F-35 can replace it, the F-35 being both Vaporware and an abortion because someone insisted the bulk of the US's future airplanes must take off and land like helicopters. Seriously, Fund NASA, axe the F-35 and just buy some French Raphaels already.

Lawyers, it is great to have them, but very expensive to have them pointed against you.

Right, in weather watches alert to favorable contitions for adverse incidents and warning alert that shit is imminent or going down at the moment. It's why in the midwest large portions of states may be covered under a Tornado watch, but the actual warnings are much more sparse. The difference between a weather warning and a "Terrorism warning" though is that generally the weather makes no special effort to conceal its intentions.

Pretty much this. People going into an associates program generally are doing it for the vocational training with the expectation that when they graduate they can get a job where they continue learning and training in the craft. For this sort of curriculum you want to start with the basics of learning the relevant languages and tools, and bleed into working on practical projects before the end of the program. The biggest challenge in a two year curriculum is going to be introducing databases.