Well during the Cold War with U.S./USSR conflict there was a lot of competition that heralded many new technologies, especially the dual use technologies that are good for both civilian and military uses. I can imagine something happening again if the U.S. had good leadership.
The problem is that the U.S. has bad media focused on being "right" over actual truth. (See Fox News and the many far-right "alt news" organizationns.) This lack of care for the truth is the foundation the U.S. political system rests on top of. Without fixing that foundation, U.S. leadership will continue to either be terrible, or terribly constrained. Add in unlimited political funding from anonymous people/organizations, and the situation is only more impossible to fix. Good U.S. leadership is a pipedream, unfortunately.
