Our goal in this work is to secure the United States’ position as the unrivaled global leader in AI through a new strategy to create and empower a focused Private Public Academic Command (PPAC) partnership-led research and development (R&D) initiatives over the next 1 to 3 years (12 to 36 months), and then sustainment in the foreseeable future.
This would include the NSF, NASA, DARPA, IARPA, FFRDC’s, National Labs and a whole of government strategy. However, to understand the urgency of the situation, and the importance of private companies, their innovation, their investment and the opportunity together, we must recognize and restate the issues of the adversary. Therefore, our recommendation for a 2025 National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan recommends several policies to increase the capital supply to innovators and to ensure investment integrity while mitigating adversarial risks.