Dive Brief:
- President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday launching a coordinated national effort to build an integrated AI platform, called the American Science and Security Platform. The effort, referred to as the Genesis Mission, will harness federal scientific datasets.
- The platform will provide high-performance computing, AI modeling and analysis frameworks, secure access to federal datasets and tools enabling AI-augmented experimentation, the order said.
- “Under President Trump’s leadership, the Genesis Mission will unleash the full power of our national laboratories, supercomputers, and data resources to ensure that America is the global leader in artificial intelligence,” U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said in a press release. Wright is responsible for integrating Department of Energy supercomputers and datasets into the AI platform.
Dive Insight:
One of the key goals of the Genesis Mission is to “multiply the return on taxpayer investment into research and development,” to further U.S. technological leadership, according to the executive order. Other goals include accelerating scientific discovery, enhancing workforce productivity and securing energy dominance.
Trump kicked off his AI agenda earlier this year with “America’s AI Action Plan” and a trio of executive orders aimed at reducing regulations and fast-tracking AI infrastructure projects. The plan recognized the “need to invest in AI-enabled science to accelerate scientific advancement,” according to Monday’s Genesis Mission executive order.
The White House executive order tasks Michael Kratsios, assistant to the president for science and technology and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy director, with overseeing the new Genesis Mission. Kratsios will also coordinate participating departments and agencies – including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Standards and Technology – as “AI unlocks scientific findings from datasets spanning from energy, health and manufacturing,” according to a press release.
The White House isn’t alone in its efforts to build out federal AI infrastructure. Amazon said Monday it plans to invest up to $50 billion in expanding AI and supercomputing capabilities for AWS’s U.S. government customers.
The investment, set to break ground in 2026, will add almost 1.3 gigawatts of AI and supercomputing capacity for federal agencies, expanding access to Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic Claude, AWS Trainium AI chips and Nvidia AI infrastructure.
“Our investment in purpose-built government AI and cloud infrastructure will fundamentally transform how federal agencies leverage supercomputing,” AWS CEO Matt Garman said in a press release.
