The irony is that the thing the government was trying to fund, use of AI in medicine, was almost entirely unrealized by this project.
It's also apparent that Xerox's involvement and willingness to share it's new inventions in Ethernet with a University eager to form the early Internet played a huge part in driving this outcome.
It seems almost completely incidental that we got an early implementation of a protocol router out of this. The government certainly wasn't trying to create one and I'm sure if they had actually involved themselves in that effort we would have gotten something far worse and far more costly.
Since the administration wasn't capable and didn't create the innovation in the first place you probably don't need to worry about later administrations removing it.
It's also apparent that Xerox's involvement and willingness to share it's new inventions in Ethernet with a University eager to form the early Internet played a huge part in driving this outcome.
It seems almost completely incidental that we got an early implementation of a protocol router out of this. The government certainly wasn't trying to create one and I'm sure if they had actually involved themselves in that effort we would have gotten something far worse and far more costly.
Since the administration wasn't capable and didn't create the innovation in the first place you probably don't need to worry about later administrations removing it.