Lou served a very high position within the DOD under the USDI.
Second only to the US Secretary of Defense, more cleared than the DOD SAPCO or director of the special access program central office.
Independent research and development funds, which is essentially a contractor can do whatever the hell they want, as long as they deem it a national security interest item and then build the DOD for it.
The DOD hit him up and said, you know, we're going to send you, I guess, JSOC guys or whatever.
My money would be on, on possibly retrieval down to the point where DOD elements, no,
team, which doesn't answer to DOD.
They won't look past that and see, oh, the DOD is hiring people on crash retrievals.
DoD relationship.