They will definitely want to consider extraordinary projects, materials, and infrastructure as munitions. But they also have existing, good relationships with

They will definitely want to consider extraordinary projects, materials, and infrastructure as munitions. But they also have existing, good relationships with academics in other engineering fields where those regulated materials can still be accessed. Maybe Wide-Open Source isn't the right answer for all projects because of the understood risks, but because they already have a good set of SOP for a similar program, perhaps it's time to ask them if they could expand that program's scope and loosen their grip on those things a little.