Only read the beginning of this screed, but its a unique and unlikely to be repeated situation until the next pandemic model. "Competitive industry" normally spends the big bucks to do Phase II and especially expensive Phase III trials. And as you note, manufacturing it. Which Pfizer did without Operation Warp Speed money until it started failing to deliver on its promises in December 2020. May have gotten some money from Germany through BioNTech which was the company that actually developed it.

The claim "By one estimate, the National Institutes of Health spent $17 billion on vaccine technologies fundamental to the Covid-19 vaccine." goes back to the mid-20th Century, is so broad as to be useless and is obviously disqualifying propaganda: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-covid-vaccine-built-b...