Cost of secrecy
Our of respect to the MOD please follow his cues please. I'm Chris and born in the 1970s
TLDR the disclosure two step is to reduce our costs to stay in control/competition. It's all been public available if you work at it for 20 years however the cost of secrecy etc based on protocols from the 1960s is unsustainable.
As a kid growing up in Southern California I got to read binders of material on the ARVs and TR3B proofs of concept. Crazy to tell you guys but most of my friends' family had a connection to aerospace -- from alcoholic engineers to blue collar machine shop workers. Hard to understand today because Socal in the 1980s was a nexus to advanced technology with the prime defense contractors as unstoppable.
Also got to read a lot of investor prospectus / sales pitches left in kitchen tables. I asked and they leveled with me, helping me learn to program and exchanging games on floppy discs.
In the 1990s I studied mechanical engineering at the University of California. A lot of TAs and research assistants of that era were also helping our generation to understand and learn the physics and calculus to build POCs and Schwa a books that are unavailable or censored were available to read in the library.
Our takeaway was that the budgets for dark projects were mostly devoted to keeping it all secret and compartmentalized to the point it was obnoxious to most of our Profs they just started answering our questions in office hours as a group or in the lab meetings..
But yes our MIL is so advanced that our politicians are in a frenzy to become the nexus of that big dough.
I'm in my 50s and semi public on LinkedIn.
Consider doing the reading at library instead of being rude and annoying on searchable platforms like social media.
It's gonna help the next generations to go to primary sources and work as groups in real life.
"Time is capital and energy."