I used to work for this agency and your description is the most apt way to characterize the dichotomy between SID (SIGINT) and IAD (information assurance) I can think of.
Only if they live in a detached house. In my experience it’s rapidly become incredibly prevalent indoors in apartments in both North America and Western Europe, even with solid construction. It’s very good at traveling through buildings, vents, etc.
Curious why it seems restricted to veterans, considering nightmares (and night terrors) affect many with PTSD across causal groups. Maybe it’s a regulatory thing right now.
I think OP meant “it figures,” as in “that’s not surprising.” But regarding figures as in statistics and usage, I have only anecdata but it seems Twitter recently is respecting the user selection for a longer period.
Government typically has a whole ton of contractors, sometimes twice the number of FTEs, but a cursory Google indicates NASA has only about 1000 contractors. Interesting, but the contract money probably goes to acquisition and commercial partnerships (https://www.osbp.nasa.gov/docs/top20_2020_contractors-TAGGED...).
That said, their FY22 budget is “only” $30B, which is less than Elon just paid for all of Twitter. This number usually surprises people but a lot of other space-related work is within the USAF and NRO budgets.