(bringing an off-topic discussion from another thread here)
well OK then i will reserve Rossi stuff for a future thread after this; but Rossi has been his own worse enemy credibility wise. this turning it over to a corporate third party as well as kind of going with an NDA for Rossi is most likely an attempt to distance Rossi and his baggage from the device. and i doubt that a serious U.S. corporate or government entity would take such steps if they did not view the device as credible enough to pay for and entangle themselves legally and reputation-wise.
in other news that could be applicable to advances space propulsion as a power source Rossi has shipped three LENR reactors to the U.S for evaluation by a Corporate or possibly government interest. This happened in April. Also Rossi's organisation says that from now on the PR and news point of contact will be this unnamed interest and not his group.
Since Rossi's device are allegedly capable of scaling to at least the multi-megawatt range these things are very topical for space propulsion as they could easily power something like a VASIMR engine or act as a starter motor for a fusion drive or act as power for deep space probes rather than using an RTG.
A claim by Rossi that a mysterious unnamed entity in the U.S. is evaluating Rossi's device doesn't strike me as any reason to take Rossi more seriously. Instead, it sounds like more reason than ever to be skeptical. This is just the kind of thing a con artist does.
First of all, the claim is conveniently completely unverifiable. Rossi could just be making it up and nobody would ever be able to find any evidence to disprove it.
Secondly, even supposing Rossi actually shipped a device to some U.S. entity, all that shows is that some U.S. company or government group wanted to test Rossi's device. There are hundreds of thousands of such organizations -- finding one that is willing to test it is hardly a difficult task.
Finally, what kind of reputable organization behaves this way? Has there been even a single case of an invention being publicly touted but refused independent testing, then claimed to be shipped to a mysterious unnamed third party for testing that turned out to really work? I've never heard of one.
With real inventions, either it is kept entirely secret or once it is announced, it is publicly demonstrated and available for independent testing by multiple independent reviewers.
Only pseudoscience works by publicly claiming results while keeping anyone from actually being able to verify them.