i can smell it from here
... and no, I'm not talking about what the "Rock" is cookin... I'm talking about the bullshit. I can think of more than a few people that stand to profit from a claim such as this, and they all reside in DC. Self-inflicted problems lead to contracts and public $$$ to solve them... aka, standard operating procedure inside the beltway.
To paraphrase from an old favorite of mine, if you can hack a plane's controls and make if fly sideways (quite the accomplishment for even the best pilots) from the infotainment system, "... then I am mickey MOUSE!!"