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Office of Science and Technology Poilcy

President Donald Trump displays an executive order on artificial intelligence he signed at the “Winning the AI Race” AI Summit at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC, on July 23, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Emerging tech, energy, space among Trump administration R&D priorities

The White House released five federal priorities for fiscal year 2027. They come as administration actions face backlash from scientists and researchers.
Michael Kratsios, Donald Trump
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)

Trump sends Kratsios’s OSTP nomination to Senate

The former chief technology officer is officially Trump’s nominee to lead the White House’s science and technology arm.
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WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 11: Arati Prabhakar (R), the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, arrives to a classified all-Senate briefing on Artificial Intelligence at the U.S. Capitol Building on July 11, 2023 in Washington, DC. Briefers included members from the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

White House science and tech report highlights R&D budget challenges

OSTP Director Arati Prabhakar followed the report’s release by reiterating her concerns about federal research and development funding.
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