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Eliminating Barriers for Federal Artificial Intelligence Use and Procurement is a policy initiative from the White House that directs federal agencies and departments to accelerate responsible AI adoption across the executive branch. Under OMB Memoranda M-25-21 and M-25-22, agencies are directed to remove bureaucratic barriers to AI innovation while maintaining protections for privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties.
Agency Chief AI Officers are empowered as change agents to promote AI adoption for lower-risk uses and mitigate risks for high-impact AI applications. M-25-22 provides guidance on acquiring best-in-class American AI solutions through federal procurement. This initiative reflects the Trump Administration's pro-innovation approach to AI modernization.
While not a grant program, federal agencies may access funds to implement AI adoption strategies consistent with these policies.
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Fact Sheet: Eliminating Barriers for Federal Artificial Intelligence Use and Procurement – The White House Fact Sheet: Eliminating Barriers for Federal Artificial Intelligence Use and Procurement SUPPORTING AND EMBRACING AMERICAN INNOVATION: Under President Trump’s leadership, America is well-positioned to maintain its global dominance in artificial intelligence (AI) innovation.
Today, the White House Office of Management and Budget, in coordination with the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, issued two revised policies to facilitate responsible AI adoption to improve public services. These policies fundamentally shift perspectives and direction from the prior Administration, focusing now on utilizing emerging technologies to modernize the Federal Government.
The Executive Branch is shifting to a forward-leaning, pro-innovation and pro competition mindset rather than pursuing the risk-averse approach of the previous The Federal Government will no longer impose unnecessary bureaucratic restrictions on the use of innovative American AI in the Executive Branch. By embracing AI adoption, agencies will be more agile, cost-effective, and efficient.
This shift will deliver improvements to the lives of the American public while enhancing America’s global dominance in AI innovation. PROMOTING RAPID AND RESPONSIBLE AI ADOPTION: M-25-21 gives agencies the tools necessary to embrace AI innovation, while maintaining strong protections for Americans’ privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. Agencies will empower AI leaders to remove barriers to AI innovation.
Agency Chief AI Officer roles are redefined to serve as change agents and AI advocates, rather than overseeing layers of bureaucracy. Chief AI Officers are tasked with promoting agency-wide AI innovation and adoption for lower risk AI, mitigating risks for higher-impact AI, and advising on agency AI investments and spending.
Agencies will produce an AI adoption maturity assessment to better track progress and Policies introduce a single “high-impact AI” category to track AI use cases that require heightened due diligence because of potential impacts on the rights or safety of the Accountability for AI will mirror the existing process for using government IT, instead of creating new layers of approvals.
Use of American AI will be maximized when seeking new AI solutions. DRIVING EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT AI ACQUISITION: M-25-22 provides agencies with concise, effective guidance on how to acquire best-in-class AI quickly, competitively, and responsibly.
Agencies must support a competitive American AI marketplace, maximizing the use of American AI systems and services in support of American AI leadership, human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security. This policy recognizes the importance of competition, communicating clear and specific requirements that avoid vendor lock-in.
The new approach removes burdensome agency reporting requirements and optimizes the acquisition process, while continuing to protect privacy and ensure lawful use of Agencies will use performance-based techniques to best harness the rapidly developing AI marketplace and create an online shared repository of resources and tools to assist with AI procurement.
AI WORKING FOR AMERICANS: Federal agencies are maximizing the benefits of AI to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security. Illustrative examples include the following: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) optimizes patient care through AI tools that help identify and standardize Veterans’ care.
The VA uses AI to support the identification and analysis of pulmonary nodules during lung cancer screening exams. The AI functionality improves detection of these nodules, assisting clinicians with life-saving diagnoses.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) improves public safety by leveraging AI to protect the The DOJ is using AI to better understand the global drug market and the impact of illicit drugs on communities and individuals, in order to further drug trafficking investigations and protect the American public. The National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) expands humanity’s ability to safely traverse Mars by using AI.
NASA is using AI on the Mars2020 Rover to help it navigate with limited direction from Earth, optimizing scientific discovery from the rover’s sensors and assuring it safely traverses the planet’s hazardous terrain.
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The Department of Defense FY2026 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) provides funding for U.S. universities to acquire research equipment and instrumentation in areas important to national defense, including AI and machine learning hardware. The program is administered jointly by the Army Research Office (ARO), Office of Naval Research (ONR), and Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), with approximately $34 million available and 95 awards anticipated. DURIP funds the acquisition of specialized computing hardware for AI/ML research (GPU clusters, TPUs, neuromorphic processors), robotics and autonomous systems testbeds, sensor arrays and data collection systems for machine learning training, high-performance computing infrastructure for defense-relevant AI research, and laboratory equipment for human-AI interaction studies. The program specifically supports equipment that enhances research-related education in DoD-priority disciplines. While general-purpose computing is not eligible, computing equipment directly supporting DoD-relevant AI research programs qualifies. No cost sharing is required.
Innovate UK's Sovereign AI Proof of Concept programme funds proof of concept demonstrators of AI technologies with state-of-the-art performance across five strategic themes: fundamental AI research, materials discovery, biosciences and health, defense and national security, and AI-aided chip/hardware design. Individual project grants range from £50,000 to £120,000 (approximately USD $63,500-$152,400) from a total allocation of at least £1.6 million. Projects must be 1-3 months in duration, starting by January 2026 and completing by March 2026. The programme supports feasibility studies and industrial research, with funding covering up to 70% of costs for micro/small businesses, 60% for medium, and 50% for large organizations. Literature review studies and projects unable to scale are excluded.
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