Nuclear weapons risk analysis, procurement and more: How two national labs are going ‘all in’ on AI

With mentions in the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan and the Energy secretary calling artificial intelligence the Manhattan Project of our time, several of the 17 DOE-run national laboratories appear poised to level up on AI in the years ahead.

Though billions of dollars in proposed cuts to the labs have left many energy and tech observers scratching their heads, the AI work is continuing unabated at some of those facilities, according to a pair of IT leaders at two labs. 

Mark Pettit, principal deputy chief information officer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, said during a FedInsider virtual event this week that he has to “temper myself in the hype around AI” as his facility goes “all in” on the emerging technology. 

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