[yukoncornelius]

The work is farmed out to the National Labs and federally funded RDCs from a coordinating office:

"Olympic Games borrowed some for what they termed "destructive testing," essentially building a virtual replica of Natanz, but spreading the test over several of the Energy Department's national laboratories to keep even the most trusted nuclear workers from figuring out what was afoot."

The engineers working on the P-1s are employed by Sandia, ORNL, LANL, Mitre, RAND, SRI, etc and are in the dark about project specifics due to compartmentalization. Want a job:

http://www.sandia.gov/careers/students_postdocs/internships/...