The compartmentalization theory taken to its logical conclusion would mean: The Navy can’t get their electromagnet catapult to reliably work and at the very same time, there’s another group at DoD that has created tech that would render the catapult obsolete? It just doesn’t sound plausible.
Actually, it sounds like government.
...now that you mention it....
Apples and oranges. A program like electromagnetic cats is far different than a compartmentalized TS-SCI code word program. I can’t believe you actually compare the two with a straight face. Unbelievable.