a) Some clearly preposterous order that originated with the demented commander in chief, and they're just going through the motions. Same concept as ordering steam catapults put back on aircraft carriers.
or
b) Intentional misdirect/bait to send various groups of people off in a wrong direction as cover for something else entirely.
This differs from 'a' in that the decision is not humoring the momentary whim of a mad dictator, but an a deliberate decision by a group of professionals (at least in theory), who have destroyed any possible means of connecting themselves with real information.
See: Special Military Operation. It was always surprising to me that the Russians essentially repeated the same mistakes from the first Chechen war after seemingly learning from them by the early 2000s
The administrator just wants to fly it around? Seriously?
What a joke.
Then make them work on fixing the healthcare. NASA is using its budget to keep 25 MiG-21 ariplanes fly worthy? It doesn't make any sense.