"At one point, the U.S. army required that every new small PC must came with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). That requirement was dropped two months later."
Not true, Army has now mandated TPM on all machines both as part of ASCP Army Small Computer Program and as Part of ITES 2H a multi billion dollar procurement contract Air force also requires TPM on all machines as well. They remove the specific spreadsheet after a couple of months in anticipation of the next buy expect published specs in jan feb for CB4