The National AI Action Plan: Opportunities for Early Movers
The Opportunity for Early Movers
In July 2025, the White House launched the National AI Action Plan and passed the Big Beautiful Bill, unlocking over $100 billion in AI funding, a 300% increase in AI-related discretionary funding across key mission agencies.
INFRASTRUCTURE + ENERGY
$1 billion to expand grid reliability, power co-siting for AI data centers and an additional $500 million for energy grid updates and substation buildouts
SECURE INFRASTRUCTURE ZONES
$250 million to establish shared AI R&D infrastructure with private sector, along with matching funds for local AI zones for metro/regional innovation consortiums
COMPUTE + R&D
$150 million to develop self-improving models and sovereign AI tools, and another $250 million to develop secure deployment and inference environments
RURAL HEALTH TRANSFORMATION
$10 billion to support rural hospital systems through investments in AI-enhanced diagnostics, care coordination and monitoring
Early movers — states, private developers, agencies and investors — can now lead the charge in building and deploying the systems that will define U.S. competitiveness.
How A&M Can Help
- Guide high-impact federal delivery
- Align state and local infrastructure plans
- Accelerate private sector readiness
- Structure public–private AI partnerships
