What agencies fund AI?

The Department of Defense and the intelligence community are the largest single funders of artificial-intelligence research and development in the federal government, with significant investment from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy national labs, NASA, and the National Institutes of Health.

The pattern is that almost every cabinet department now has an AI investment thread — some research-focused, some operational. The recent activity below shows where the AI-coded contract and grant work is flowing today.