Any way you slice it, military funding= classified information, proof of competitive advantage that we would have sold on the cheap. They seem to like polywell for its scalability.
Once aneutronic fusion is proven, I’m assuming that several groups are going to want alternative reactor designs like PW and CBFR for their own niches and other reasons. Put another way, would somebody else’s success end my involvement with FF? No. It’d be further proof that aneutronic does work!