Rather than the usual contracting model that takes several years, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (known as "DARPA") asked a small company in Arizona, Local Motors, to fulfill the challenge in a little over four months.

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So, you in essence end up with a contracting, freelance model.

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At the height of privatisation and contracting out, zero hours contracts were seen as a model of flexibility and cost-saving.

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