The effort aims to better coordinate research done by agencies across the government and more effectively integrate AI tools to achieve more scientific breakthroughs, according to Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, who spoke to reporters on the order ahead of Trump’s signature. The mission will harness the computing resources of the Department of Energy’s national labs to tap federal datasets and enable more experiments utilizing AI, Kratsios added, predicting the effort would help shorten the timelines for scientific discoveries.