Darpa Plans a Major Remake of U.S. Electronics
Honest question: How is this not basically a subsidy for the electronics sector? 
The news I'm hearing from the US all the time is how China, for example, is subsidizing it's production sector and that that creates unfair market competition. From Harvard Business Review, for example: "[...] its overarching policy of aggressively subsidizing targeted industries in order to dominate global markets" and "Government subsidies to produce technologically advanced products and undercut foreign manufacturers have buttressed China’s trade prowess" [1]The same can be said for the other technologies that were first financed by the government and then taken over by the private sector [2][1] https://hbr.org/2013/04/how-chinese-subsidies-changed[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUHrYJW-6MI