PiEEG developer Ildar Rakhmatulin partly fundedy by the U.S. Army?

In the «Funding» section of this paper with Ildar Rakhmatulin as first author: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/3/877 it says: The authors I.R., A.N. and D.M.’s work was supported in part by a USSOCOM (United States Special Operations Command) grant EESB P85655. The South Ural State University (SUSU) is a University in the Russian city Tscheljabinsk. Ildar Rakhmatulin who …