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Even if you do that and build one. You'll need to spend many many times over that budget lobbying, making friends, getting noticed and networking, formalizing through red tape and so.

Imagine today you have that device in your table. Ok. What is your next step. Just show up at the Pentagon with it in your bag?

A lot of that costs money (unfairly probably) and that is one of the reasons soldiers sometimes end with crappy hardware that costs some astronomical amounts.




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