Could it be that the answers are inconvenient ?
Yep. They hired civilian experts who told them the same thing then effectively managed out more than one of them when they did not like the responses.
You have a bunch of ex senior officers with absolute zero commercial civilian experience thinking they can run a civilian contract as if it was an Air Force squadron. In the words of one of an ex group captain on the payroll “I realise I am Air Force institutionalised”.......