Was "fully funded" meaning we could get Amadeus down the final stretch? Or was he saying SPORT was fully funded that many years ago?
Program (or Project) Managers submit budgets. He would then be tasked with securing funding to meet those budgets. If he said fully funded, that means they had the money to fulfill those budgets. If management provided unrealistically low budgets, that wasn't all on him.
I don't think he ever claimed "fully funded" with the current management team. And I'm not sure the old team fully understood the magnitude of some of the regulatory challenges that lied (laid, lain... whatever!) ahead at that time.