Garce, IBM is a Trusted Broker repping the DOD, insuring a clean and as inexpensive a process as possible...

chain of custody, material cost, manu efficiencies etc.
I thought if there was already this depth of cooperation  between these parties it would make sense to have it all on the campus. Of course eMagin has been subject to this oversight, see TWS, Wire Bond, eMagin. Maybe it's a distinction without a difference. You know this stuff, I don't.