> If their application of the technology were so secret that we couldn't tell it existed, then it wasn't worth whatever they paid.

I would posit that, were a system like this feasible and already implemented by the military, we wouldn’t hear about this until the football has to be activated.

There is no single other decision as monumental and requiring of extremely precise timing. And it’s not a decision that is used very often or would be obvious if something “not physically possible” were done since it happens in secret. It’s pretty much the perfect usecase for such a technology.