I don't see how this will ever work. The needs of the defense sector are just fundamentally at odds with the needs of the commercial sector. On the hardware side you get things like Intel and AMD trying to hide "chips within chips", and on the software side you get things like foreign governments demanding to inspect proprietary software before they'll allow it to be imported.

The past and present are mired in "national interests"; but the real obstacle seems to be the idea that you can prevent other people from having what you have (an idea, a weapon, a key, etc.).

EDIT: I was responding to this quote from your link: "The goal of the ERI is to more constructively enmesh the technology needs and capabilities of the defense enterprise with the commercial and manufacturing realities of the electronics industry." I didn't mean to imply that what your company is working on won't work. Unless, of course, that is what your company is working on.

I especially like your focus on physical design, as it (along with verification) is usually the bottleneck in modern cutting edge node chip development. Any plans to update the public about progress?