Also, I would suggest approaching this from the other direction - not "what will this cost" so much as "what can we afford"? Figure out how much money the Project could discretely steer, and then spend it. Because TMP requires every penny you can possibly throw at it and then a whole lot more.
General Dynamics is currently making ~$30B in revenues, ~$6B in profits a year. If the Project were to pull $1B a year out of it by redirecting engineering efforts, running extra units off production lines, straight-up cooking the books, it could probably be concealed. Heck, $3B a year might be possible. And that might be just one CEO on the CoT.
The global stock market has huge success stories that someone who travelled in time could leverage. How much could the Project have made by investing early in Facebook, or Google, or Amazon? Divide those investments between enough parties and there is nothing to track.
How much can be made off of knowing where oil reserves are located, or when hurricanes will occur, or what movies are going to be blockbusters, or what numbers will win the PowerBall and what states allow you to claim anonymously?
Seriously, the biggest challenge of the finance wing of the Project is not going to be getting the money, it's going to be laundering it. And done correctly, considering the nature of the Project, that should not unmanageable.
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