Nvidia to build supercomputer for federal AI research

“There’s huge opportunities for AI to make government more efficient,” said Charles Clancy, senior vice president of MITRE said in a statement. “Government is inefficient, it’s bureaucratic, it takes forever to get stuff done. … That’s the grand vision, is how do we do everything from making Medicare sustainable to filing your taxes easier?”

MITRE was spun out of a MIT lab in 1958 and has been a supplier of surveillance, communications and cybersecurity technologies to the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies. It operates numerous facilities around the country including the Fermi National Accelerator Lab.

The DGX SuperPOD will support MITRE’s Federal AI Sandbox, a platform to improve experimentation with next-generation, AI-enabled applications across federal government agencies. The sandbox launches in late 2024.