[kbenson]

I'm not sure it's all that easy, since a) you can't know exactly how good someone is going to turn out to be (you can probably get close through), and b) you can't tell what Intel will be hiring for later, and c) to increase your odds you probably want more than a few people in this program to achieve at least a few people being hired in positions that are useful.

That said, the main hurdles seem to be managing people and funds, which government agencies seem pretty good at figuring out. So maybe not all that easy, but maybe not particularly hard either. The biggest problem might be keeping it secret, given the number of people that might need to be involved that are clandestinely working for a TLA but not as their main job and not steeped in the culture of secrecy.