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Michael Kratsios: “The Department of Energy runs all of our national labs, like…”

Featuring: Michael Kratsios, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Science Advisor to the President | National

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Michael Kratsios on America's Tech Policy Agenda and the Race to Win AI | 2026 Upfront Summit

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We spread out all of our tech and science work across all of our agencies. So the National Science foundation invests in basic research. The Commerce Department has an agency called NIST which does standards. You have The Department of Energy runs all of our national labs, like Los Alamos. where nuclear weapons are designed and created. So OSTP essentially is an office in the White House, which essentially serves as the coordinator for all of science and tech for the government. (05:04–05:12)

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Asserts that the Department of Energy manages national labs, including Los Alamos.

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