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The Department of War has made/announced the described funding commitment: a two‑year investment totaling nearly $1.8 million to the Great Plains Innovation Network for reverse engineering obsolescent defense‑critical parts missing technical data packages.
Public copies of the Department of War press release on war.gov are inaccessible (Access Denied). Secondary press aggregators (Mirage News) reproduce the same language. Great Plains Innovation Network is a registered 501(c)(3) in Manhattan, KS and publicly describes reverse‑engineering work; however, I could not locate an independent primary award record (e.g., on USAspending.gov, SAM.gov, Defense press releases, or official DoD/DoA announcements) showing a two‑year, nearly $1.8 million award to GPIN as of 2026-02-10. Because the original government host is blocked and no authoritative federal spending or contract record matching the claim is publicly verifiable, the claim cannot be confirmed or reliably contradicted at this time.