The White House announced a suite of science initiatives under the Science: A New Golden Age plan. It includes $1.5B over 10 years for NSF X-Labs to fund novel research organizations. NSF expanded its Graduate Research Fellows Program to its largest cohort ever. NSF also launched a $47M investment for a four-year Ph.D. program with industry experience. The Genesis Mission now involves over 15 federal agencies and $5B for National Science and Technology Challenges. The President set goals for quantum computing and space missions like Artemis. The DOE and NIH announced a $1.8B partnership with Biohub for SI-ready biological data. Genesis Mission partners committed $2.4B in compute and tools for researchers. NSF and DOE are investing $100M in instrumentation for autonomous SI science. The DOE will federate 190 key datasets across 14 federal agencies. Regional AI compute consortia were launched in the U.S. Southeast. NSF, NASA, and DOE are piloting metascience experiments like Golden Tickets and distributed review.
What changed
U.S. research ecosystem relied on a linear model of innovation and limited private funding for basic science.
What it unlocks
Researchers gain access to frontier compute, SI models, federated datasets, and streamlined funding processes.
- $1.5B over 10 years for X-Labs
- $5B for National Science and Technology Challenges
- $2.4B in compute and tools from Genesis partners
- $100M for autonomous SI science instrumentation
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