[🇺🇸 Congress, Dec 2025] Establishing a National Security and Defense AI Institute

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Andrew Charlton
Australian Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy

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Since the release of the National AI Plan in December 2025, a top priority has been getting the AI Safety Institute (AISI) up and running with the right people to lead it. Because we are not building a think tank. We are building a national testing c...
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U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
U.S. House committee with jurisdiction over science, technology, and related national policy; source of official AI legislation releases.

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Establishes the Center for AI Security and Innovation at NIST to evaluate AI-related national and economic security risks while supporting continued American leadership in AI research and development.
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Government of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom central government

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Britain faces a clear choice: shape the AI revolution or let it shape us. That choice has far reaching impacts across our economy, our public services, and our national security. So we are taking control of our future and launching a new taskforce to...
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Ronny Jackson
U.S. Representative from Texas and former White House physician

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The committee continues to support the authority provided in section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (P.L. 119-60) for the Secretary of Defense to establish one or more National Security and Defense Artificial Intel...
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United States House Committee on Armed Services
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The committee continues to support the authority provided in section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (P.L. 119-60) for the Secretary of Defense to establish one or more National Security and Defense Artificial Intel...
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Dan Hendrycks
Executive Director of the Center for AI Safety.

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Devin's appointment gives us the operational and technical leadership to match the scale of what we're building, and the Frontier Security Institute extends our mission into territory that has never been more consequential. Frontier AI is now a natio...
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Isaac Harris
Executive Director of the Frontier Security Institute at the Center for AI Safety and former U.S. Navy officer.

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As the labs race to expand the frontiers of AI capability, the National Security Enterprise risks falling behind. Bridging the two has never been more critical to American national security or to the future of American innovation.
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Center for AI Safety
Nonprofit research and advocacy organization focused on reducing societal-scale risks from advanced AI.

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The Frontier Security Institute will close the capability gap between frontier AI and the National Security Enterprise — the Pentagon, the Intelligence Community, Congress, and allied institutions. FSI will operate as the translation layer between fr...
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Chris Fall
Director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) at NIST; former Energy Department official in the first Trump administration

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Independent, rigorous measurement science is essential to understanding frontier AI and its national security implications.
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John Hickenlooper
U.S. Senator from Colorado

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Our bipartisan Future of AI Innovation Act empowers the U.S. AI Safety Institute to develop the research, standards, and partnerships we need without compromising our position at the forefront of this technology.
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John Cornyn
U.S. Senator (R-TX)

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Growing University AI for Defense (GUARD) Act: Codifies a portion of President Trump’s AI Action Plan and enables the Department of War (DoW) to establish and lead a National Security and Defense AI Institute to advance defense innovation, workforce ...
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Texas A&M University Office of Government Relations
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Texas A&M University is exceptionally qualified to lead the establishment of a National AI Institute for National Security and Defense, offering a powerful convergence of capabilities in AI, large language models, and data science.
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United States Congress
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The Secretary of Defense may establish one or more National Security and Defense Artificial Intelligence Institutes [...] at eligible host institutions.
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Apollo Research
AI safety research organization

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High Potential to Accelerate AI Security [...] Section 224 enables the Secretary of War to establish National Security and Defense Artificial Intelligence Institutes within eligible host institutions.
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Office of Senator John Cornyn
U.S. Senate communications office

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introduced the Growing University AI for Defense (GUARD) Act, which would [...] establish and lead a National Security and Defense AI Institute
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Office of Congressman Ronny Jackson
U.S. House press office

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This bill authorizes Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to establish a National Security and Defense Artificial Intelligence Institute at a senior military college
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