Trump Admin Launches $250 Million Initiative To Ensure American Scientific Dominance

President Donald Trump is set to unveil a $250 million science funding push at a summit billed as "A New Golden Age," according to a White House official who spoke to the Daily Wire. Most of the money would go to X-Labs, independent research organizations paid for by the federal government. They belong to a public-private partnership the National Science Foundation started in May, and they aim to equip scientists and engineers to spot and address upcoming scientific problems. The White House says industry and philanthropic backers are also pledging support.

The event extends work by Michael Kratsios, who directs the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and is leading what the official described as a sweeping reassessment of the nation's science and technology enterprise, the first since World War II. Metascience, meaning the study of how science is funded and carried out, will be used to judge whether models such as X-Labs succeed, so that effective ones can be expanded and weak ones changed.

In addition, the National Science Foundation, NASA and the Departments of War and Energy will run experiments and analyze data to improve their own funding and research practices.

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