“We just have to act like our life depends on it,” Under Secretary for Science Darío Gil said during a House hearing Wednesday.

The $28 million-plus investment will go toward projects that leverage machine learning, data sharing, AI infrastructure and more.

The market research announcement will be used to inform the Trump administration’s "Genesis Mission” announced late last month, the agency said.

The Genesis Mission will create a unified AI resource that pulls together federal datasets from DOE supercomputers to “solve the most challenging problems of this century.”