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Industrial Cyber: NIST, MITRE Invest \$20 Million in AI Centers
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NIST is investing $20 million through MITRE to establish two AI Economic Security Centers focused on protecting US critical infrastructure from AI-enabled cyberthreats and boosting manufacturing competitiveness. The centers will develop AI-driven tools and evaluations to counter adversarial AI use and reduce risks from insecure AI systems. This initiative is part of NIST's broader strategy for American technology leadership and international AI standards.
Key Points
- •Two AI centers created: one focused on critical infrastructure cybersecurity, one on US manufacturing productivity.
- •NIST partners with MITRE's federally funded R&D center model to accelerate AI technology from development to adoption.
- •Centers will address adversarial AI threats and risks from reliance on insecure AI systems.
- •Initiative supports US leadership in international standards for critical and emerging technologies.
- •Part of NIST's broader 'Strategy for American Technology Leadership in the 21st Century.'
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# NIST, MITRE invest $20 million in AI centers to counter cyberthreats, boost US manufacturing competitiveness
January 05, 2026
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has expanded its collaboration with the nonprofit MITRE Corporation as part of its efforts to ensure U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence (AI). Through this award, NIST is investing $20 million to establish two AI centers, namely the AI Economic Security Center for U.S. Manufacturing Productivity and the AI Economic Security Center to Secure U.S. Critical Infrastructure from Cyberthreats, which will advance the delivery of AI-based technology solutions, strengthening U.S. manufacturing and cybersecurity for critical infrastructure.
These centers will drive the development and adoption of AI-driven tools, or ‘agents, across these national priority areas. The AI centers will develop the technology evaluations and advancements that are necessary to effectively protect U.S. dominance in AI innovation, address threats from adversaries’ use of AI, and reduce risks from reliance on insecure AI.
Announced in December, the award focuses on [implementing](https://www.nist.gov/director/strategic-priorities) NIST’s Strategy for American Technology Leadership in the 21st Century to accelerate the progress of critical and emerging technologies from development to adoption, in close partnership with U.S. industry. NIST will accelerate U.S. engagement and leadership in international standards for critical and emerging technologies (CETs), drive the development and adoption of science-based standards for CETs to promote national trade, enhance strategic engagement, participation, and leadership in international standards bodies, and coordinate standards policy across the government.
“This investment will help accelerate the application of AI in American manufacturing and help drive the American manufacturing renaissance,” [said](https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/12/nist-launches-centers-ai-manufacturing-and-critical-infrastructure) Paul Dabbar, deputy secretary of commerce, in a media s
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