They are in use. You make it sound like they are a separate breed of worms for use only in fighting disease. They obviously are inserting the immunity characteristics into the production worms as they become viable.
Whatever happened to the big Air Force investment?
The same thing that happened to SSM, Warwick Mills, The Army, Polartec, and any other company that may have been mentioned in the past. Until they came up with BAM1 worms they could not sustain mass production. Now they can, or at least we'll find out if they can in the next 3 or 4 months.
Whatever happened to the patent applications?
I don't know.
Whatever happened to the metric ton production in 2024?
If you're going to keep asking questions about what didn't happen in the past, you could go back a lot further than that. But would be the point? We are here now. If you don't want to be here now, don't be.