Dept of Energy includes a bunch of research labs that get funded for energy research and physics projects, but because those researchers are so damn good at what they are doing, they also funnel money into projects that are more questionable (as energy projects if under public scrutiny but still relevant to national security) and more targeted towards supporting the military.
Dept of Energy includes a bunch of research labs that get funded for energy research and physics projects, but because those researchers are so damn good at what they are doing, they also funnel money into projects that are more questionable (as energy projects if under public scrutiny but still relevant to national security) and more targeted towards supporting the military.
Yep. Advanced energy / propulsion research is as classified as it gets.
Big budgets too, which probably means DOE programs are used to siphon money into all sorts of classified projects unrelated to energy.
Advanced weaponry would likely use energy or propulsion from the DOE programs.
Like....bio weaponry?