Given the talented scientists, engineers and operations research analysts the Pentagon has direct access to, who are already directly tied to the intelligence community and accustomed to solving very challenging often open ended technical and operational problems, it makes little sense why someone like this (a dull crayon, to be polite and with no STEM background) would have the role he claims in investigating this phenomenon.
The answer is !
There’s likely a “ka-ching” to his bank account somewhere !
Always follow the money !