The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) issued a request for information from “innovators” in artificial intelligence (AI) with aims to integrate AI into the agency’s critical operations, NNSA announced Monday.
The request for information (RFI), entitled “Transformational AI Capabilities for National Security,” was released one week after President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order on the Genesis Mission Nov. 24. The Genesis Mission calls for a national effort to use AI to accelerate “the speed of scientific discovery” for national security development purposes.
“NNSA is at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge technology to safeguard our nation,” NNSA Administrator Brandon Williams said in the agency’s RFI press release. “President Trump’s Genesis Mission provides a clear mandate, and we are responding with immediate action. This RFI is a critical step in harnessing the immense power of AI to enact the White House’s vision for America to lead in every aspect of AI.”
NNSA’s RFI’s key focus areas from interested entities – which could include AI model developers, cloud technology environment providers, universities or think tanks – include AI development and enhancement capabilities, classified environments for AI development and deployment, data curation and management for AI training, partnership models and other operational considerations. Responses to the RFI are due Jan. 23, 2026.
Trump’s Genesis Mission Executive Order also calls for the Secretary of Energy to create a “closed-loop AI experimentation platform” that integrates supercomputers and the national laboratories into the mission, and to focus on “priority areas” that include nuclear fission and fusion energy.