If they are funded to build the DeepR, which is described as "a build-to-print clone" of the original Deep Impact spacecraft,...then maybe it makes sense to build several clones, in a sort of production line manner?

The original Deep Impact mission cost around $330 million.

By replicating an already proven design, and spreading the cost out over several copies of that design, (maybe 3 to 6?) it seems like you could get a lot of science done, for the dollar.

NASA is proposing a "Deep Impact style" mission to the Lunar poles, in hopes of determining whether Clementine/Lunar Prospector detected water ice or not.

If that mission were canned, and the funding added to a limited DeepR production line, maybe we could do a lot of Comet and Lunar science on the same dime?