I have a hard time constructing a scenario where the US a) operates these objects, b) uses them to surveil the US Navy and c) releases that information. Surveil

I have a hard time constructing a scenario where the US a) operates these objects, b) uses them to surveil the US Navy and c) releases that information. Surveiling the Navy would be testing, like you said, why would they allow that information out? The US state is not a single person, so maybe there's some part of the state that is removed enough from everything else that they can't/won't stop the Navy here. But that hasn't been how things have operated with previous advanced projects, so I'm skeptical of that.