Actually, I suspect that it'd be better staying with the military, I'd say there was a slightly lower chance of it being axed under military jurisdiction than under civilian jurisdiction. Admittedly these days both are viable targets but it's slightly easier to eat into NASAs budget than it is to eat into the militarys budget. Eventually then the project will work its way back down to NASA at hopefully a reduced cost (since all the prototype and testing stages will have been conducted by the military) in a form that they can use for the civilian programs.
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