According to Whistleblowers. The Government and Defense Contractors have been working on and developing tech and technical schematics for tech far in advance of anything public for decades.

To what extent and degree it’s more advanced varies on the Whistleblower. Some claim there’s stuff several centuries if not a Millennia more advanced than what’s public ‘cutting edge’ tech. Sitting in remote testing centers and warehouses.

Which is where the bulk of the funds the Pentagon claims they can’t account for has actually been going.

if I were space force, wouldn't I hire or form alliance with good aliens to help us fight inter galactic battles and exchange information, even foreign student exchange program w/ the aliens