The NIST investigation was contracted out to companies that have made out handsomely since, if not before the investigation.
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) was awarded an administrative services contract to "support" the two-year investigation.
WTC Investigation Contracts
In 2003 SAIC was the #3 government contractor.
2003 Top 100 -- Washington Technology
With a reported $11.17 billion in revenue at the time, it split in Sept 2013 to form the companies SAIC and Leidos Holdings, Inc
SAIC played a large part in the NSA's Trailblazer Project an early take on it's now more widely know phone, email communications surveillance and storage program.
Some of those passing through its Board Room:
Admiral Bobby Inman, former head NSA, Naval Intelligence, Vice Director of DIA and deputy director of the CIA
Robert Gates, former CIA director, Secretary of Defense, Iran-Contra
William B. Black, Jr. went from NSA (1959-1997) to SAIC VP (1997-2000) back to Deputy Director of NSA (2000-2006)
William Perry, former Secretary of Defense, chairman Global Technology Partners, LLC "a defense/aerospace-focused investment banking boutique"
John Deutch, former CIA director, Deputy Secretary of Defense, director of Raytheon
Melvin Laird, Defense Secretary under President Nixon
J.B. Wiesler Vice Chairman, Bank of America
Donald Foley, a top exec at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the military agency that invented the Internet, is a current SAIC director.
Retired General Max Thurman, commander of the Panama invasion,
Donald Hicks, Chairman of Hicks & Associates, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary SAIC, former Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering, Senior VP, Marketing & Technology, for Northrop Grumman, head of Applied Physics Section of Boeing Aerospace
Donald Kerr, former head of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Jerome Hauer, NY Office of Emergency Management, managing director with Kroll Associates (WTC security), national security advisor with the Department of Health and Human Services
John P. Jumper Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from September 6, 2001 to September 2, 2005