Players/The Physical Substrate

DOE 17 National Labs — The Weapons-to-AI Pipeline

Phase I — The Hidden Infrastructure (1942-Present)

17 FFRDCs under M&O contracts. Battelle manages/partners in 6 critical labs (PNNL, ORNL, INL, BNL, LANL, SRNL).

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