> friendly companies, those with the appropriate security clearances, still benefit from the shared knowledge. But access to classified information isn’t just

> friendly companies, those with the appropriate security clearances, still benefit from the shared knowledge. But access to classified information isn’t just granted by a clearance, you also require need to know. This is to prevent (in theory) anyone with a clearance from looking at every piece of classified info they feel like, which would be an operational security risk. Having a pool of classified patents that are shared freely with only cleared people working at defense contractors would violate that safeguard.