Sort of.
The larger issue predates Ike, back to WWII, FDR and (among other things) the Manhattan Project.
There was a desire to continue government management (which could be read as control) of the nation’s main sciences endeavors. Which had produced things like the Atomic Bomb.
However FDR and his advisors knew that after the war the public wouldn’t tolerate the continued nationalization of the sciences, outside of a few national laboratories.
So they decided that the best way to keep the brain trust intact, and pointed in the “right” directions, was to have the sciences post-war devolved back out of direct wartime government control and back into the universities, but with a short leash provided via government grants and other funding mechanisms.
It was this larger issue that Ike was talking about.
He built the interstate system, he first integrated school, warned of the Military Industrial Elite. It just goes on and on