Normally, the agency takes its multibillion-dollar annual budget and allocates it to defence contractors, academic institutions and individual scientists who bring ideas tothe agency or answer a request for proposals.
And when you are performing the equivalent action on Siri, your device is passing that information to a remote server which is processing therequest and then returning an answer, in pieces, back to your device.
The service declined toanswer a Freedom of Information request asking how often police were stepping in for ambulances, saying it would have "to look through each individual call record" to find out.