I have no idea what the military would want with XP. It's definitely not the entire DoD, probably just a small sample of academies or ROTC. I doubt it's anything major from a revenue standpoint. Even DCS can't survive on contracts without commerical.

It's not like getting the contract for providing the new service rifle for the entire Army or something. They'd only be interested in a specific feature or airframe like the A-10 for DCS.

As someone who's worked in gov contracts, they're a bitch. They're very specific, very demanding, very stipulative, and they fine the shit out of you every chance they get. Unless you're a company like Northrop Grumman, it's usually not even worth it.

On that note as well, in case for some reason you're still reading. Funnily enough at my agency, Northrop actually refused to rebid a contract at my agency because they were tired of it. It got awarded to a much smaller company after that and they've been having a nightmare time with it. They've switched parent companies 4 times the past 2 years. They keep getting fined because they can't meet certain stipulations.

Anyway, point is, I wouldn't bet on gov contracts being more good than harm in this case.