Reminds me of Lockheed's Skunkworks. I've heard lots of businessmen say they're going to recreate skunkworks, but with improvements.

The improvements, of course, make it not a skunkworks and these efforts never deliver skunkworks performance.

Could the government create a skunkworks? Not likely, because they fought against Kelly Johnson constantly over how he ran it.

I bet Paul Allen could have done it, because he had a track record of funding competent people and letting them do what they wanted.