DOE's Genesis mission names 278 winning teams; industry pledges $800 million

Undersecretary Dario Gill said the Genesis mission named 278 principal investigators as winners of a highly competitive Department of Energy contest, drawing "over 5,000 applications and over 800 institutions" from across the country.

Gill told the audience that the effort spans federal agencies and industry partners: he said more than 20 agencies and "all 17 national lab directors" were present, and that the Genesis consortium includes "over 40 plus industry partners" who have contributed roughly "$800,000,000" to execute the program. "So in front of you, you have 278," he said, describing the teams as representing all 50 states.

Organizers emphasized breadth: Gill framed Genesis as a cross-agency, public-private effort to apply new tools such as artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to national science and technology challenges. He cited staged presentations at the event ranging from imaging advances to microelectronics modeling, and singled out mathematician Terry Tao as an example of how computational tools are accelerating research. The panel closed with a charge to attendees to translate the awards into durable results for the research ecosystem.