It is tax money, willing to take risks beyond those private capital is willing to take. This money is used by U.S. academicians and consultants to analyze problems and is spent to provide their salaries. It is not used to implement their findings. For that private industry is required. Such links to private capital and industry are not ideally provided by the type people the U.S. government has been hiring to do this work.
American industrialists have a slogan.
Russia needs mentorship from businessmen not academicians, because it needs their private capital. Academicians and consultants do not have such capital and only spend U.S. government money on providing their knowledge and services describing problems, not solving them. The availability of such U.S. Government tax money does not influence experienced operators of privately owned industrial businesses to co-invest in projects. The consultants the U.S. government has employed have not been successful in interesting private industrial firms to make such investment and therefore the analysis of problems has not led to investment in the solutions. The government recognizes that it does not have the knowledge to give management or technical advice for operating a business.