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Department of Energy outlines American Science Cloud (AMSEC) to link national laboratories
Summary
An agency official described AMSEC, a federated American Science Cloud being built under the DOE's Genesys mission to connect computational assets, experimental facilities, data and AI tools across national laboratories; the presenter cited pilot projects at PPPL, NETL and Idaho National Laboratory.
An agency official said the Department of Energy's Genesys mission is building the American Science Cloud (AMSEC), a federated digital environment designed to link national laboratories'computational assets, experimental facilities, data resources and AI tools into a single, always-available research platform.
The official said the platform aims to remove barriers to access and streamline researchers' workflows, adding that "this always on connection between the lab's resources will remove the obstacles that scientists have previously faced in getting access to the research tools they need." The presenter also said AMSEC will provide a single federated sign-on so scientists can move from hypothesis to experiment to analysis within the same environment.
Why it matters: AMSEC is presented as infrastructure meant to accelerate scientific discovery across DOE's national labs by making high-performance computing, experimental data and AI capabilities more interoperable. The official described multiple pilot projects already using AMSEC to test real-world scientific and operational workflows.
Examples cited: The official highlighted several early use cases. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's "stellar AI" project is using AMSEC to enable AI-driven co-design of fusion facilities. The MultiLab Synapse I team is applying the platform at advanced light and neutron user facilities to reduce analysis time "from days to minutes" via real-time experiment steering. A General Atomics D3D digital twin is delivering real-time AI surrogate inference into an operational fusion control room, the presenter said. The National Energy Technology Laboratory's Energy Data Exchange is integrating 15 years of DOE critical-minerals and energy data governance into AMSEC. Idaho National Laboratory's Deep Links Nexus is building a data-management backbone for advanced nuclear reactor design.
The official framed these examples as demonstrations that AMSEC can support both research acceleration (shortening analysis cycles) and operational decision support (real-time inference in control rooms), and said users are "putting these capabilities to the test." No formal timelines, budget figures or specific governance details were provided in the remarks.
What comes next: The presenter described AMSEC as a cornerstone of the Genesys mission and said the platform will "open the way to the future scientists have until now only dreamed about." The remarks indicate pilots and integrations are underway, but the official did not announce enactment dates, funding amounts, or formal policy decisions.
