I wouldn't be surprised if the USG has direct technical processing type hooks into all of the tech of these companies they funded as part of the "initial investment" whether through In-Q-Tel, shadow VCs, or born in a DARPA lab. If you ever watched the TV series Person of Interest, I can tell you for a fact everything on that show is 100% real, technically speaking. To what extent the USG is deploying it, I don't know.

Then there is HAMR/HAMMER - that's an entire other convo. Word is Comey helped facilitate the sale of it to the CHICOMs.

I wouldn't be surprised if the USG has direct hooks into all of the tech of these companies they funded as part of the "initial investment" whether through In-Q-Tel, shadow VCs, or born in a DARPA lab. If you ever watched the TV series Person of Interest, I can tell you for a fact everything on that show is 100% real, technically speaking. To what extent the USG is deploying it, I don't know.

Then there is HAMR/HAMMER - that's an entire other convo. Word is Comey helped facilitate the sale of it to the CHICOMs.