It sounds like your suggesting that there is the possibility that SLI would hire these people simply to look good, whether you meant it that way or not. I would suggest that from Loris' past reputation, she's not about to pull any scams at this stage of the game. Hiring an expensive engineering group just to have on retainer makes no sense and I'm sure Loris' above that. I am compelled myself to trust the fact that if she hired them, then she had work for them. I'm not about to put doubt in other peoples minds by suggesting otherwise. This may be totally opposite to your intentions but thats the way it sounded when I read it. Its probably been done by some in the past and I respect the point you've made. I simply dont think its so.