Why are you advocating for the government to take control of open source projects? Is anyone here naïve enough to believe that, after being persuaded of the national security interests of these projects, they're just going to hand over money to the random people who maintain them to keep doing what they're doing? The U.S. Govt isn't Santa Claus. Look at what they did to the farming industry. Most people used to be farmers and now there aren't many farms at all, since most of it's being done by big companies. Applying that idea to open source means the government would use regulation to prevent community developers from having their software used in production, and all future work on open source code would have to be done by engineers at big tech companies. In many ways that's already the de facto system we have today. So if you get the government involved, it'll just become law, and the lone wolves in open source who big tech doesn't want to hire will be fined, sent to jail, etc. Read "Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal" by Joel Salatin.