Historical pattern

NASA’s peak budget share funded aerospace, computing, and materials primes. The lesson we actually use: follow named contracts, not slogans.

DARPA-funded networking research became infrastructure decades later. That lag is why this site separates LOI / UCA / CONDITIONAL from FINAL paid.

Military and government demand for transistors, plus Manhattan Project / naval nuclear programs, seeded later commercial industries. Pattern, not a price target.

Open Awards, read the status tag, then click the official source. If there is no verified ticker, we leave it blank. If a famous name (IonQ, TSMC FDI) is not on the notice, it is not on the card.