Garbage in, garbage out. If you LIE about the inputs, the results will always be propaganda, no matter what model you use.
That is exactly what they are going to do: spend 18M plus the inevitable 300% overruns and scope creep. In the end all they will have done is figure out a way to manipulate, falsify, and cherry pick data to feed to some bogus computer models that are then used to scare civilians and lawmakers into throwing real money away and infringing even further on our freedoms and liberties. Look for them to identify anything and everything that liberal fascists don’t like as contributing to “the problem”...