That said, it doesn't sense that as AS said the DPA was "their" idea (DOD) and "we need them" is "our idea." How do they convince Mr. Kramer at Wright-Patterson when they have a deep pocket entity looking to buy them.

Plausible scenario is that the Gov was going to spend the money anyway. It could fold it into Mantech on the military side and an unknown manufacturer on the Enterprise/Consumer side. Remember component of the Industrial Base Strategy under the DPA Title III is to encourage the funded technology to spread through the economy.