9^10^ABFH wrote: Wed Dec 24, 2025 9:32 pm
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Blood burst forth very vividly for the whole world to see, but alas very few are equipped to understand. Currently less than those that are members of the famed 27 Club.
Yesterday, spy bought 57000 shares of CPWR bringing his total on one account to 411000. It was a test to see if trading was even possible. Today 19000 of 144000 Limit order filled. The ask showed .01/27,000 but those numbers are often inaccurate.
Two more anomalies among many.
Here’s the ladder:
U.S. Army / USAG-KA
Defines the mission need: more resilient power and water at Kwajalein. The public framing is energy independence and reduced fuel reliance for the remote installation. 
Johnson Controls Government Systems
Acts as the prime on the Army-side planning effort. OTE says its contract came from Johnson Controls, and CPWR’s 10-K says OTE was a subcontractor to Johnson Controls Government Systems. 
OTE / CPWR
Acts as the OTEC specialist subcontractor. Its role was the OTEC-specific engineering and feasibility package: technical assessments, feasibility analysis, and design studies for a roughly 17.2–17.5 MW OTEC facility with desalinated water production. The 10-K also says this phase is meant to support possible later discussions with the Army about a long-term Power Purchase Agreement if the concept advances. 
DCO Energy
Acts as owner’s engineer / design-services partner to OTE. OTE’s release says DCO would, with OTE, develop the comprehensive OTEC system design, including project load analysis, conceptual engineering, and cost estimation. CPWR’s 10-K later confirms DCO performed subcontracted design services on the Army project. 
What comes after this ladder
If the study is accepted, the next rung would be a separate implementation path: some kind of Army-approved procurement or commercial structure for actually delivering power and water. Publicly, that later rung has not yet been clearly shown. The 10-K says OTE anticipates possible discussions with the Army regarding a potential long-term PPA upon completion of this phase. 
Bluntly:
Army need → Johnson Controls prime contract → OTE OTEC feasibility/design subcontract → DCO engineering support → possible future Army deployment/PPA discussion
That means DCO was not the Army prime and not the visible future plant owner from the public record. DCO sat in the engineering-definition layer under OTE, which sat under Johnson Controls. 
I can also map the same ladder into who gets paid at each rung.
2026-27 transition looms large on z event horizon.
