Well it would not be the DOD. When Max's dad died they would have written him off the rolls. Spent the money on other projects and half the time do not even know what they are working on or even who is working for them. As f'or the other letter companies there are to busy spying on each other to figure out what their personnel are up to and if they get caught they blame the other organizations for the mess up. And if Max's dad was smart he would have sheilded the entire area to prevent it from being located. And I am sure that Max has had the systems regenerating the system blocking program on a daily bases. True any system can be hacked but it takes a long time to do that. Unless someone knows what to look for and where to look for it they could take years to figure it out. I am also sure that if he wanted to he could throw up a sheild around the area that would make star war defense look like childs play. But that would be up to whatever is in the evil and wicked mind of Magus. Only he knows and either he will not tell us or will let us know in his own good time.
Hell half the time I have no idea where I'm going with a chapter, pain meds just make the journey more fun and surprising...of course sometimes I go off on tangents, but what the hell, I have a delete button