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You'll just have to purchase the Autodesk™℠ for Government TS Plus Premium package! At the low, low cost of $1 million per Core Processor Licensing Unit [1].

[1] https://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/processor-core...

> This was always our problem with moving flight simulators to pure SAAS: if the Air Force couldn't use it we couldn't afford to make it.

Why not make a custom build that connects to a local server? The Air Force can probably pay whatever fee you ask if they want it enough.

I argued that but it kept running in to some contractual problem that was several miles above my paygrade (I think the short version was it had to meet their definition of COTS which precludes any kind of custom build).

Presumably air-gapped installs will not receive the update to disable the feature.