The US Department of Energy is apparently perusing Drexler's APM proposal

https://energy.gov/eere/amo/do…-workshop-august-5-6-2015

Drexler talks briefly about his collaboration with the DOE in this talk here

Indeed, but at least it's something. If they can demonstrate a convincing proof of principle it could start the ball rolling for the rest of industry and public research to pick up the slack.

On January 1st it was announced that the DOE would be funding Drexler's APM proposal http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=7179