The White House plans to accelerate federal research reform, redirecting more R&D funding toward AI applications and individual investigators rather than primarily to universities, according to a draft report and memos seen by the Wall Street Journal. The Office of Science and Technology Policy is expected to release guidance on Tuesday that would influence roughly $200 billion of annual federal R&D spending and steer allocations through the remainder of the Trump administration. The administrat

The White House plans to accelerate federal research reform, redirecting more R&D funding toward AI applications and individual investigators rather than primarily to universities, according to a draft report and memos seen by the Wall Street Journal. The Office of Science and Technology Policy is expected to release guidance on Tuesday that would influence roughly $200 billion of annual federal R&D spending and steer allocations through the remainder of the Trump administration. The administration says it will prioritize funding mechanisms aimed at individual researchers—scholarships, prize programs and investigator awards—over direct university block grants; cited demonstration programs include NSF graduate-level initiatives and NIH awards for innovative scientists.