I would say that they and all the other alphabet agencies have not only been already studying it but have perfected it. When we look at the abnormal behavior of some recent storms it appears that it has been used to promote political agendas.
The amount of money that they are now going to spend on it is but a mere drop in the bucket. However it will allow them to say that it is now �officially� possible to do what they have already been doing for some time.
For some reason the old Imperial Margarine commercial popped into my head.
__________________ "We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me." George Orwell