President Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room flanked by Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank, Larry Ellison, executive charmain of Oracle, and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the White House on Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
A letter signed by 18 civil society organizations implores the OMB and OSTP heads to make sure agencies continue to maintain and update their AI inventories.
President Donald Trump, joined by Michael Kratsios, signs a presidential memo for continued testing of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)-drones, at his Oval Office desk Oct. 25, 2017. (White House / Shealah Craighead)
The order borrows heavily from principles already established by the defense and intelligence communities, extending them to those outside the national security space.
Bases in San Diego, Washington state, Georgia and elsewhere will see new tech designed to help logistics and communications networks, among other things.
A look back at the relatively short history of the White House's chief technology officer role and accomplishments of the first four people to hold it.