Let me see ...
US guvmint (and most Western guvmints as it happens) wants to sell, lease, invite bids from interested parties that they in turn sell on as wholesale or retail packages to others.
Then those guvmints request the buyers, lease holders, successful bidders to retain data including metadata for security purposes.
So why sell, lease, invite bids in the first place?
Of course the practical answer is: to get money dummy!
But the moral answer is ... ?