The Commerce Department, on Wednesday, initiated a call for proposals to assist American companies to “deliver full-stack AI technology packages to international partners”. The submission window for applications is open until June 30.
Companies are expected to collaborate and present proposals for a bundled AI system that covers all key layers of the AI ecosystem—hardware and infrastructure, data pipelines, AI models, security, and end-use applications—delivered together for specific markets or industries.
The Departments of State, Defense, Energy, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) will assist in evaluating the proposals. Selected proposals will receive benefits such as advocacy engagement, federal promotion, and federal financing tools.
The Commerce Department told Axios that it won’t use a standard scoring system or checklist to evaluate the proposals. Instead, it would require companies to include a statement “describing how the proposal advances U.S. national interests.”
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