It all depends on the amount of funding and top-level support. Many technologies get created within DoD and rest of US government, with most not achieving wide

It all depends on the amount of funding and top-level support. Many technologies get created within DoD and rest of US government, with most not achieving widespread adoption (I'm using that as criteria for being of note). Some do, such as the Library of Congress classification system that replaced the Dewey decimal system in many libraries (https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/ https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/) . Also, the internet, which grew out of Arpanet project (https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet/ https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/br...)