I have a good friend who was a contract manager; he used to work for me.
At one time I was working on a contract statement of requirements and evaluating contractor submissions.
Now no one could stop him talking to me about contracts and I was trusted not to talk contracts to him. You might say he was an unpaid advisor.
Now suppose he had come and stayed in the same hotel as me . . .
Now suppose I had brought him to the contract evaluation meeting . . .
I suggest the parallels might be the same but I don't think I would have got away without an investigation and a reprimand. Maybe Sec Def will get a rep too.