Gnome is probably best with touchscreen, KDE kinda works but is getting better. I've had limited success with Deepin and Cinnamon. I wouldn't bother trying with XFCE, they have no time to make something as low-demand as that work.
How are you finding it for supply line on equipment for the floor, or do you see any of that side of the process? Because as far as I know, most of the machinery is not making it's way into the country from China and Europe because of tariffs, so even if you put up a building, you wouldn't be able to outfit it. If it is getting in, it's going to be prohibitively expensive to outfit a line.
Industrial capital spending has never, ever been as low as it is right now, even during Covid. It's pretty much zero, because nobody has any intention of investing in any sort of industrial infrastructure in a complete clusterfuck of economic and trade policy. The chicken hasn't come close to roosting yet, give it another few months and watch the bloodbath.
It's the specification process that's the thing, nobody there would have gone out on a limb the way SpaceX has with their recovery systems. Look where they are on a shuttle replacement: the Apollo capsule with more room.
They say this is for enterprise and government, and they talk about "terminals". This seems more like a Hughes network, and let me tell you, if it's that bad, you want nothing to do with it.
NASA hasn't take the slightest risk since Challenger. They wouldn't have accomplished 1/20th of the launch capability SpaceX has developed in the last 5 years.
I lead a number of projects many times as complex as this silly little app, and I don't think they all came to $2.35M in billings, let alone $60M. Everyone involved from the private and public side should be facing corruption and fraud charges.
Gnome is probably best with touchscreen, KDE kinda works but is getting better. I've had limited success with Deepin and Cinnamon. I wouldn't bother trying with XFCE, they have no time to make something as low-demand as that work.