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Processors =/= blade servers.
But anyways, I suspect that part of the reason why they are doing this is to evaluate the performance of a larger scale cluster of PS3s. Seeing as not many people or organizations (or governments) can obtain IBM Cell blade servers but everyone with enough money and access to the internet can get PS3s, this may be a good way of figuring out how a similar setup could be used by an ambitious entity for an off-the-shelf supercomputer.
Or, as others have suggested, the USAF is intending to use them for a simulated war on the Playstation Network.