Assuming they are picking winners. Western government's usually just throw money at existing legacy organizations, not up and coming companies. In this case it

Assuming they are picking winners. Western government's usually just throw money at existing legacy organizations, not up and coming companies. In this case it's an institute attached to a big university (University of Texas) that is scaling up an R&D idea, that happens to be useful for the military https://www.statesman.com/story/business/2024/07/18/semiconductor-microsystems-ut-austin-texas-institute-for-electronics-dod-awarded-840-million/74444801007/ https://www.statesman.com/story/business/2024/07/18/semicond...