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He says they want to know what the projects were, and I wonder, isn't that proprietary information? Can't he say-shouldn't he say that he can't disclose what they've been working on? Especially if this stuff is experimental, wouldn't he be under some non-disclosure obligation?
That's an excellent point, which I should have thought of.
I imagine that some is proprietary and some is not. I'm not a scientist and don't know how all that fits together.