Science: A New Golden Age Renewing the United States scientific and technological enterprise to expand researchers' freedom, strengthen national capabilities, improve Americans' lives, and prepare science for the age of artificial intelligence. This StratML rendition is based upon the July 2026 report to the President, Science: A New Golden Age, prepared by Michael Kratsios, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. ^^ The report responds to President Donald J. Trump's March 26, 2025 charge to examine how the United States can secure leadership in critical and emerging technologies, revitalize the national science and technology enterprise, and ensure that scientific and technological progress improves the lives of all Americans. ^^ The report identifies four overarching goals: prioritize individual scientists over legacy institutions; reform the allocation, distribution, and assessment of federal research funding; establish clear scientific priorities and strengthen the industrial capacity needed to translate discoveries into national technological strength; and prepare the research enterprise for the artificial intelligence revolution. ^^ For purposes of this StratML rendition, the first two closely related overarching goals are combined under Goal 1, Scientific Enterprise, because both are addressed through the recommendations in Chapter II. Goals 2 through 4 correspond respectively to Chapters III, IV, and V. ^^ Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/science/ ^^ Submitter's Note: This plan has been rendered in StratML Part 1 format by ChatGPT from the report's stated goals and recommendations. Office of Science and Technology Policy OSTP f27fbabc-9ea8-4bd5-b981-a3d02a0efd5c Advise the President and coordinate science and technology policy across the Executive Branch. Donald J. Trump President of the United States who commissioned the report and established its policy charge. Michael Kratsios Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of OSTP who prepared and transmitted the report. Federal Research Agencies Allocate federal research and development funding and administer programs supporting scientific and technological progress. American Researchers Scientists, engineers, technicians, craftspeople, students, and other contributors whose work advances scientific knowledge and technological capability. American People Benefit from scientific progress, technological innovation, national security, economic growth, employment, health, and improved living standards. A Golden Age of American Innovation in which scientific and technological progress makes the United States safer, healthier, more prosperous, and capable of achieving discoveries previously considered impossible. c932c714-f2a3-451b-9b4a-82b2bc08fb83 To renew the American scientific and technological enterprise by empowering researchers, reforming institutions and funding mechanisms, strengthening domestic innovation and manufacturing, broadening participation, and adapting science to the artificial intelligence revolution. 368a92df-c8e8-4212-ab5c-9df2596d2d7d Freedom Enable researchers to pursue vital questions, bold ideas, and unconventional approaches. Truth Ground scientific inquiry in evidence, falsifiability, reproducibility, transparency, and open examination. Merit Allocate opportunities and resources according to scientific ability, performance, and the quality of ideas. Ingenuity Encourage experimentation, invention, institutional renewal, and ambitious technological achievement. Accountability Align publicly funded research activities and institutional performance with national priorities and the interests of the American people. Prosperity Translate scientific discovery and technological innovation into economic opportunity and improved lives throughout the United States. Security Protect American scientific leadership, intellectual advantages, supply chains, and strategic technological capabilities. Craft Recognize hands-on skill, tacit knowledge, engineering, manufacturing, and technical work as essential components of scientific progress. Scientific Enterprise Revitalize America's science and technology enterprise by placing individual researchers at its center, reforming federal research funding, reducing administrative burdens, supporting new institutional models, and continuously improving funding agencies' performance. 5f06adf2-68aa-4d0d-8d33-84c01321833f 1 Federal Research Agencies Reform funding practices, organizational structures, review processes, and portfolio management. National Science Foundation Support basic research, fellowships, novel performers, experimental funding mechanisms, and cross-disciplinary scientific work. National Institutes of Health Support biomedical research while testing improved funding, institutional, and metascience practices. Program Officers Set scientific directions, evaluate proposals, construct research portfolios, and manage federal research investments. Early-Career Researchers Pursue scientific independence and potentially transformative research without excessive administrative or institutional barriers. Universities Conduct research, train scientists, administer grants, and reform practices that impede scientific productivity. Research Organizations Conduct mission-driven, interdisciplinary, long-horizon, engineering-intensive, or curiosity-driven scientific work. Individual Scientists Place working researchers at the center of the scientific enterprise by reducing administrative demands, expanding portable graduate fellowships, supporting early-career independence, providing long-horizon funding, opening alternatives to conventional academic careers, and basing selection on merit. bf4b91a3-e7f4-4c03-8ab1-cde333d91e73 1.1 Working Researchers Devote more time and attention to scientific inquiry, experimentation, mentoring, and discovery. Graduate Students Use portable fellowships to pursue promising research and select suitable institutions and mentors. Early-Career Researchers Gain earlier independence and greater freedom to pursue ambitious and unconventional research. Funding Mechanisms Diversify research selection and funding mechanisms through reviewer championing, fast grants, long-horizon grants, prize challenges, advanced market commitments, regranting, and other approaches suited to different forms of scientific work. 44b8b12f-d6fe-413b-9588-a18d6d5ef4d3 1.2 Grant Reviewers Identify and champion promising proposals, including ambitious ideas that may lack consensus support. Research Funders Match funding and selection mechanisms to the characteristics, risks, time horizons, and intended results of scientific work. Institutional Models Support a wider range of scientific performers, including X-Labs, Advanced Research Projects Agencies, focused research organizations, curiosity-driven institutes, and agile teams designed for interdisciplinary, engineering-intensive, mission-driven, or long-horizon research. f715c5cb-83eb-4c94-99e5-687e512b5354 1.3 X-Labs Assemble agile, time-bound teams of scientists and engineers to overcome specific scientific and technical bottlenecks. Advanced Research Projects Agencies Empower program managers to make bold investments and assemble teams capable of pursuing ambitious missions. Focused Research Organizations Build time-bound professional teams to produce public scientific goods and overcome defined technical bottlenecks. Administrative Burdens Reduce the time and resources consumed by federal grant administration by compressing review cycles, eliminating duplicative reporting, reducing grant-writing demands, restraining excessive indirect-cost recovery, and redirecting resources toward scientific infrastructure and research. 348ed117-7425-42b6-8aa3-e1d620d503e8 1.4 Grant Administrators Simplify review, reporting, compliance, and award-management processes. Research Institutions Limit administrative expansion and direct a greater share of research funding toward scientific work and infrastructure. Continuous Improvement Institutionalize evidence-based improvement in federal science agencies by establishing empowered metascience units, conducting controlled experiments on funding and review practices, evaluating agencies as capital allocators, strengthening program officers' discretion, and intentionally managing research portfolios. 96b1695f-4d07-497d-a541-3365e8e2b794 1.5 Metascience Units Test, evaluate, and improve research funding, review, institutional, and portfolio-management practices. Agency Directors Authorize experimentation, review evidence, and implement successful organizational and funding reforms. Program Officers Exercise informed discretion in setting scientific direction and constructing balanced research portfolios. Technological Leadership Secure United States leadership in critical and emerging technologies by linking scientific discovery more closely with prototyping, testing, manufacturing, commercialization, and domestic industrial capability. 9ea6e091-28bc-4442-8d99-b21357653ed6 2 Federal Regulatory Agencies Modernize regulatory and permitting practices to support responsible experimentation, development, and deployment of emerging technologies. Department of Energy Provide access to national laboratory capabilities, facilities, equipment, expertise, and research partnerships. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Provide access to specialized research facilities, testbeds, technical capabilities, and partnership opportunities. Department of War Provide access to facilities, testbeds, technical capabilities, and partnership mechanisms supporting strategically important technologies. American Builders Prototype, test, manufacture, commercialize, and scale technologies within the United States. Private-Sector Research Organizations Conduct scientific and engineering research, invest in emerging technologies, and translate discoveries into commercial and strategic capabilities. States and Localities Experiment with regulatory, permitting, economic-development, and innovation policies suited to regional conditions. Permissionless Innovation Restore permissionless innovation by accounting for the costs of inaction, weighing potential benefits alongside risks, streamlining regulatory and permitting processes, and allowing innovators to prototype and experiment under controlled conditions. 74ccf635-4bf5-4163-a8bf-fc77c54fbc5c 2.1 Federal Regulatory Agencies Reform rules and approval processes to enable responsible experimentation and timely deployment. Innovators Generate real-world evidence by designing, testing, and refining emerging technologies. Regulatory Sandbox Operators Provide controlled environments in which technologies and regulatory approaches can be tested. Federal Infrastructure Open federal laboratories, facilities, equipment, and testbeds to American builders by broadening industry access, considering innovative potential in use approvals, simplifying partnership and licensing agreements, using flexible transaction authorities, and making joint investments in advanced equipment. ffda73d6-bf7b-4b18-a7c9-96f988ff5c5e 2.2 National Laboratories Provide specialized facilities, equipment, expertise, and test environments that individual companies cannot readily replicate. Federal Research Facilities Enable qualified external researchers and companies to use federally supported infrastructure. Startups Use federal capabilities to prototype, test, validate, and improve emerging technologies. Technology Transfer Offices Streamline Cooperative Research and Development Agreements, licensing, and other mechanisms for external collaboration. Public-Private Partnerships Strengthen public-private partnerships and talent flows by expanding agency-adjacent foundations, focusing small-business research programs on strategic capabilities, supporting joint research centers, and enabling researchers to move fluidly among government, academia, and industry. d4796cd1-6d1f-48bc-a0bd-8679f236f01e 2.3 Agency-Adjacent Foundations Mobilize private resources, partnerships, and expertise in support of federal scientific missions. Small Business Innovation Research Program Support small businesses developing strategically important scientific and technological capabilities. Small Business Technology Transfer Program Support cooperative research and technology transfer between small businesses and research institutions. Joint Research Centers Combine industrial, academic, and federal capabilities around shared scientific and technological priorities. Industry Fellows Move between academic and industrial settings through doctoral, postdoctoral, and other fellowship programs. Grand Challenges Organize pre-competitive consortia and grand challenges that mobilize scientific and engineering resources at national scale, accelerate breakthroughs, and overcome shared bottlenecks in foundational technologies. c929de7f-d321-4a8b-a485-0e9964d9ac30 2.4 Pre-Competitive Consortia Coordinate organizations around shared research, infrastructure, standards, and engineering challenges that precede product competition. Mission Participants Contribute research, engineering, manufacturing, funding, facilities, and operational capabilities to moonshot-scale initiatives. Federal Mission Agencies Define nationally important challenges and marshal resources that no single institution can provide. Industry Consortia Collaborate on shared technical bottlenecks while preserving competition in downstream products and services. State and Local Experimentation Use counties and states as laboratories for innovation by supporting experimentation with regulation, permitting, economic incentives, workforce development, and regional innovation strategies, and by spreading successful approaches throughout the nation. 2849689d-bbd3-40c9-a985-7f900f7165b2 2.5 State Governments Test and refine policies that support scientific research, technological development, manufacturing, and investment. County Governments Create local conditions that attract innovators, research organizations, skilled workers, and advanced manufacturers. Regional Innovation Organizations Coordinate local institutions, companies, investors, educational providers, and public agencies around regional capabilities. Fast-Moving Jurisdictions Demonstrate effective regulatory, permitting, investment, and innovation practices for adaptation elsewhere. National Prosperity Ensure that scientific progress and technological innovation improve the lives of all Americans by strengthening technical education, expanding career opportunities, modernizing workforce pathways, and building regional innovation ecosystems that reconnect discovery with manufacturing. a8509a74-9ef6-4ff9-8e4a-fa6927ebd413 3 Universities Integrate practical technical experience with scientific education and research. Community Colleges Prepare skilled technical workers, support regional innovation ecosystems, and provide practical workforce education. Students Acquire scientific knowledge, technical skills, practical experience, and industry credentials. Skilled Craftspeople Contribute practical expertise, tacit knowledge, mentoring, and advanced manufacturing capabilities. Manufacturers Transform scientific discoveries into products, production capabilities, employment, and economic growth. Regional Innovation Ecosystems Coordinate education, research, manufacturing, workforce development, and entrepreneurship within local communities. Hands-On Training Integrate practical technical training, laboratory experience, externships, industry credentials, and hands-on learning into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education while recognizing practical achievement in accreditation, admissions, and faculty advancement. 6e7ffa24-b30c-4515-9c93-3d354b1e37c7 3.1 Faculty Members Integrate practical technical experience with classroom instruction and research. Accrediting Organizations Recognize practical technical achievement alongside traditional academic accomplishments. Industry Partners Provide externships, workplace experience, mentoring, and technical credentials. Scientific Careers Expand scientific career opportunities beyond traditional academic pathways by establishing fellowships for skilled craftspeople, practitioner-in-residence programs, portable technical credentials, opportunities for hobbyists and makers, and broader community participation in scientific research. e89025f8-8b5c-409d-9d7e-0fa3393c6c7b 3.2 Practitioners Bring practical technical knowledge and industrial experience into research environments. Technicians Support research, experimentation, laboratory operations, manufacturing, and technology development. Makers and Hobbyists Contribute creativity, experimentation, and technical innovation from outside traditional academic institutions. Career Pathways Modernize apprenticeships and technical career pathways by extending registered apprenticeships into scientific and technological fields, supporting pay-for-performance funding, expanding Workforce Pell Grants, and strengthening community colleges as regional scientific and technical workforce centers. 8c357c2a-ff8f-459f-8ea8-11846ae4fe50 3.3 Apprentices Develop scientific, engineering, manufacturing, laboratory, and technical skills through structured workplace learning. Employers Provide apprenticeship opportunities, workplace instruction, mentoring, and career advancement. Workforce Development Organizations Coordinate education, training, credentials, employment, and regional workforce needs. Innovation Clusters Build dense local innovation clusters by expanding regional innovation hubs, manufacturing institutes, defense industrial centers, university partnerships, workforce pipelines, and advanced manufacturing capabilities that reconnect scientific research with engineering, production, and skilled technical work. bc945057-46d3-4052-b8ed-e4c59992c001 3.4 Regional Innovation Hubs Coordinate research, entrepreneurship, manufacturing, investment, workforce development, and technology commercialization. Manufacturing Institutes Advance industrial capabilities, applied research, workforce development, and technology deployment. Defense Industrial Base Centers Strengthen strategic manufacturing capacity, supply chains, workforce readiness, and technological resilience. Regional Communities Benefit from scientific investment, manufacturing employment, entrepreneurship, and sustained economic development. Artificial Intelligence Prepare the American scientific enterprise for the age of artificial intelligence by integrating AI into scientific discovery, strengthening the integrity of scientific knowledge, expanding verification capabilities, accelerating autonomous experimentation, and developing AI-native scientific institutions. f490a8d2-4626-4d7a-a574-742603885b26 4 Federal Research Agencies Integrate artificial intelligence capabilities into scientific infrastructure, funding, and institutional practices. National Laboratories Develop, operate, and integrate national-scale computational, experimental, and scientific infrastructure supporting AI-enabled discovery. Artificial Intelligence Developers Develop AI models, software, tools, and systems that accelerate scientific discovery while supporting rigorous verification. Scientists Apply AI responsibly to scientific inquiry while maintaining rigorous standards of evidence, transparency, and reproducibility. Scientific Publishers Modernize scientific communication, publication, attribution, and dissemination for AI-assisted research. Genesis Mission Launch and expand the Genesis Mission as the Nation's flagship artificial intelligence for science initiative by integrating supercomputers, AI models, scientific instruments, and research datasets across the national laboratory system to accelerate scientific discovery and substantially increase the productivity of American research. 3d551f1f-3986-481e-9398-4e8039fa20a7 4.1 Genesis Mission Participants Coordinate computational resources, scientific instrumentation, data assets, and artificial intelligence capabilities to address nationally significant scientific challenges. High-Performance Computing Centers Provide advanced computational infrastructure supporting AI-enabled scientific discovery. Scientific Integrity Institutionalize gold-standard science by strengthening reproducibility, transparency, data sharing, falsifiability, and other practices that improve the quality and trustworthiness of federally funded scientific research and the knowledge on which artificial intelligence systems rely. 3846a3cf-35f0-49d5-a3b6-285b59d08b58 4.2 Research Institutions Implement practices that improve scientific rigor, transparency, reproducibility, and responsible data stewardship. Research Sponsors Require and evaluate compliance with rigorous scientific standards supporting trustworthy knowledge. Verification Infrastructure Build verification infrastructure at national scale by investing in AI-enabled verification systems, open standards, machine-auditable replication packages, continuous replication mechanisms, and incentives that reward independent validation and constructive scientific challenge. 5a7ae5e1-af5d-421c-a9f4-caedd1f53a13 4.3 Replication Researchers Verify, reproduce, challenge, and strengthen scientific findings through independent investigation. Standards Organizations Develop interoperable standards supporting machine-auditable scientific evidence and replication. Autonomous Experimentation Accelerate autonomous experimentation by investing in robotics, automated laboratories, scientific instrumentation, advanced software, and integrated experimental systems capable of dramatically reducing the time required for scientific discovery. 93779e70-6924-4e79-b072-cea8fa70c384 4.4 Laboratory Automation Developers Design robotic, computational, and laboratory systems that automate scientific experimentation. Scientific Equipment Manufacturers Develop advanced hardware and software supporting automated scientific research. Scientific Institutions Experiment with artificial-intelligence-native scientific institutions by modernizing funding structures, publication systems, scientific credit attribution, and resource-allocation mechanisms to support increasingly rapid, collaborative, and AI-assisted scientific discovery. 78f2b802-7371-4aba-be27-b99da3c41e0c 4.5 Science Funding Organizations Design and evaluate funding mechanisms suited to AI-assisted scientific research. Scientific Communities Develop and adopt new practices for collaboration, publication, attribution, and evaluation in the AI era. Knowledge Infrastructure Providers Support the information systems, repositories, and services required for AI-native scientific collaboration and discovery. 2026-07-22 https://www.whitehouse.gov/science/ Owen Ambur Owen.Ambur@verizon.net