NEAH does not show up on most of the DOE VTO reports such as the Battery 500 consortium because NEAH is not and will not be a part of it.
The road has forked and yes Lithium Metal by Alpha - EN
This is from October 2017 after they have tested the NEAH battery.
alpha-En Corporation and Argonne National Lab Will Advance alpha-En Technology to Produce Lithium Metal Anodes for EV Batteries with $750,000 Award From DOE Technology Commercialization Fund
Read above, that is a COMMERCIALIZATION grant not a research and development grant and not a battery characterization.
The end game is the lithium-Sulfur battery you chuckled about.
"The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), an innovation hub based at Argonne National Laboratory, will build an organic flow prototype for grid storage and a perfected lithium-sulfur prototype for transportation. JCESR will test the prototypes to prove they can achieve the project's founding goal: five times the energy density of commercial batteries at one-fifth their 2011 cost.
The new batteries will have to cost less than $100/kWh when scaled for commercialization."