Two officials from the National Science Foundation (NSF) are pointing to early indications from the White House’s science and technology agenda as evidence that development of quantum and artificial intelligence technologies will be hot-button issues for the Trump administration. […]

National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Sethuraman Panchanathan announced his resignation on Thursday after five years in the role. […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced on Friday that it is terminating awards and funding opportunities that do not align with the agency’s research priorities under the Trump administration, including research on misinformation and disinformation. […]

Terry Carpenter, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) chief information officer (CIO), has left his role at the agency and Clyde E. Richards has since fulfilled the role of acting CIO.  […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is reinstating most of the probationary employees that it laid off while following directions from the Trump administration to cut those employees from its workforce.    […]

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, sent out a series of letters on Feb. 3 to several Federal agencies with extensive science portfolios asking how they are complying with recent executive orders targeting diversity-related policies.   […]

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) declared an abrupt reversal today of its Jan. 27 order to freeze trillions of dollars worth of Federal grant and loan program payments after the short-lived order created nearly universal confusion over and drew opposition from several states who successfully petitioned a Federal judge to block the order from taking effect.   […]

The National Science Foundation has awarded new CyberCorps Scholarships for Service (SFS) totaling nearly $15 million to four public universities with the aim of boosting the cybersecurity workforces at Federal, state, local, and Tribal government organizations.   […]

Six new pilot projects will test quantum technologies and further progress in harnessing quantum phenomena for real-world applications, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced on Monday.   […]

Government officials at both the Federal and state levels are working on a wide range of new AI use cases with focuses on administrative efficiency and improving decision-making, several Federal and city officials said this week.    […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced $30 million of funding to expand learning opportunities for the U.S. workforce in emerging technology areas such as advanced manufacturing, microelectronics, and biotechnology. […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is partnering with the Department of Commerce (DoC) to build out a network that will train skilled workers for good-paying jobs needed in the semiconductor and microelectronics industry over the next decade.  […]

A bipartisan pair of representatives introduced the National Science Foundation (NSF) AI Education Act in the House last week, offering a companion to the Senate bill that was introduced earlier this year. […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) on Friday announced its initial $5 million investment across five quantum pilot projects, taking the first steps toward creating the NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL). […]

National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Sethuraman Panchanathan said on Friday that the United States must act now to invest in AI and quantum technologies in order to maintain its global tech advantage. […]

The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee voted today to approve the Creating Resources for Every American To Experiment with AI Act of 2023 (CREATE AI Act). […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) on Wednesday announced it launched a five-year $67 million investment establishing the Safeguarding the Entire Community of the U.S. Research Ecosystem (SECURE) Center. […]

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $35 million through its Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Research Incubators for STEM Excellence Research Infrastructure Improvement (E-RISE RII) to boost research competitiveness, build partnerships across sectors, and create workforce development.  […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new investment last week to advance privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and promote their use to solve real-world problems. […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced nearly $10 million in funding last week to foster diversity and inclusion within the AI research community. […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) on Wednesday unveiled a new effort to assess the agency’s grant proposals for potential national security risks. […]

A new bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate seeks to boost education on artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum science across the nation by authorizing the National Science Foundation (NSF) to award scholarships for higher education students. […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is ahead of schedule in developing a new chatbot that will assist the research community in navigating NSF program websites and matching their ideas with current solicitations, according to a top agency official. […]

National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Sethuraman Panchanathan urged Congress today to ramp up its investments in critical and emerging technologies, saying he is “extremely worried” the United States is slipping in the global race for technological leadership. […]

As National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Sethuraman Panchanathan looks to the future of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot, he wants to ensure that a lack of resources doesn’t become a roadblock to AI innovation. […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the Department of Energy (DoE), today awarded 35 projects first-round access to the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot, which is a shared national infrastructure to support the AI research community. […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is experimenting with AI to help its employees and closing in on the release of a new chatbot for the agency’s outside constituencies, NSF Chief Data Officer and AI Official (CAIO) Dorothy Aronson said this week. […]

The United States needs to ramp up its investments in critical and emerging technologies – such as semiconductors and AI – in order to keep pace in the global race for technological leadership, according to a new report from the National Science Foundation (NSF). […]

In response to President Biden’s AI executive order (EO), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DoE) have officially established a Research Coordination Network (RCN) dedicated to advancing privacy research. […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is looking for industry insight on spectrum research and development (R&D) to help the White House create a new Federal plan on the technology, according to a recent request for information (RFI). […]