I don't have any inside knowledge to expand on this, but it's interesting that Voting Village has had a public participatory component (website, social media, annual appearance at DEFCON, CFPs guiding messaging on topics on hardware and misinformation); the DARPA AIxCC appears to follow that model, and yet this Franklin Project is much harder to link to a website, social media, mailing list, etc. Is it too early, is it invite-only...?

This seems to be the project's website: http://defconfranklin.com/