"Science: A New Golden Age" is a federal science-strategy report released by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) under Director Michael Kratsios on July 21, 2026. The White House presented it as the first comprehensive rethinking of the federal science enterprise since Vannevar Bush's 1945 report Science, the Endless Frontier (Source: whitehouse.gov; washington.edu).
Key elements
- Shifts federal support toward individual scientists and ARPA-style programs (Source: whitehouse.gov).
- Makes AI-accelerated research a core priority of the federal science enterprise, aligned with the Genesis Mission (Source: insideaipolicy.com).
- Requires agencies with research budgets of $3 billion or more to submit action plans within 90 days (Source: washington.edu).
Implementation context
The report extends the administration's Genesis Mission push. Related commitments reported the same week include Microsoft's $60 million commitment to the Genesis Mission ($40M in Azure compute credits and $20M in engineering, with initial projects at PNNL, LLNL, Johns Hopkins APL, and Idaho National Laboratory) (Source: blogs.microsoft.com) and the Defense Department's commitment of more than $150 million across fiscal 2026–27 for a Genesis-aligned high-performance computing environment (Source: insideaipolicy.com).
Relationships
- depends-on: America's AI Action Plan — the administration's broader AI strategy.
- related: AI for Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Michael Kratsios, Department of Energy (DOE), DOD — Department of Defense (AI Deployer).