Couple more sections from the Times article
Now all makes much more sense.
The Leonardo name includes few other names and brands purchased along the way.
During that process it is possible that some of new management, skip over some practice from the past.
Knowing Leonardo from the first hand, also know about very strict policy of keeping the things right.
Any way it is shame that some still usable "civilian" components
are not able to be offered on market.
Recently have purchased one nice 3 GHz RLB, brand new old stock for 1/10 of original price.
Reading some remain of labels, the unit must be on some similar pile of "junk".