As much as I hate to say this? It may be more expedient for you to join a BFRO chapter and try to implement some changes there that may increase the odds.
A decade is a long time to reinvent the wheel, meaning that the framework is already in place for what your mainly trying to accomplish.
Project Grendel never had more than 10-15 active guys nationwide actually packing a firearm with intent to kill. And we were just a loose organization of like minded guys. Locally I know one researcher, but he is not pro kill, so we do not go out together, although he does pack a pistol.