The US Genesis Mission's federal footprint expanded by more than $5 billion, as the White House widened the AI-for-science initiative into a whole-of-government effort spanning more than 15 federal agencies.
The funding backs 278 research projects selected under the US Genesis Mission's first National Science and Technology Challenges, a set of goals covering health care, energy, infrastructure, manufacturing and national security, per a White House release. The projects route through the Department of Energy's American Science and Security Platform, the department's shared infrastructure connecting researchers with data, compute and AI tools across its national laboratories.
More than 15 agencies now hold a stake in the US Genesis Mission, including the Department of Health and Human Services, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Department of War, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture. OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, who leads the initiative for the White House, called it the next chapter in a tradition of national scientific mobilizations. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the selected projects represent the strongest applicant pool the department has seen for the program.
President Trump created the US Genesis Mission by executive order, initially housing it inside the Department of Energy before this release turned it into a government-wide platform. The expansion follows a run of vendor-side commitments to the same initiative, including cloud credits and AI research tools pledged by Google Cloud and quantum-computing access offered by IBM to national laboratories. Those corporate pledges add compute and software; the new federal dollars are the first public accounting of how much direct government money backs the US Genesis Mission, and which agencies beyond Energy are now funding it.
