America’s advantage has always depended on turning new technology into real-world capability. Super Intelligence is no different.

By: Adam Lackey, Chief Operating Officer of Onebrief

In less than three months, the Trump administration turned a report into more than $6 billion in investments. That kind of speed is rare in Washington, but that is what it takes to stay ahead.

Onebrief Chief Technology Officer Cory Ondrejka and I were in Washington in early October for The White House’s Science: A New Golden Age Summit, where the administration announced those investments. America's security and our ability to compete are directly tied to its leadership in science and technology. We were grateful to be part of the conversation.

President Trump set this effort in motion last year, when he tasked Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, with rethinking how America funds scientific research and innovation. Director Kratsios delivered his report, Science: A New Golden Age, in July. The White House’s recent initiatives turn that vision into action, with investment from government, industry, academia, and philanthropy.

The initiatives advance national missions to demonstrate fault-tolerant quantum computers and send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars. Seeing these efforts through requires sustained investment and a willingness to move from theory to execution. The administration deserves credit for setting ambitious goals and committing the resources needed to see them through.

The same principles apply to Super Intelligence (SI). People spend a lot of time asking how capable these systems will become. But a capable system delivers results only if people can put them to work within the institutions where decisions are made.

Director Kratsios made this point in July. He wrote that even the most capable models “will be slowed down in the bottleneck of institutions and systems built for the last century.” He is right. A new technology cannot transform what an institution does if it must navigate processes designed for a different era.

That is especially true for national security. And the best of this technology should go to protecting Americans and American interests.

In the military, speed matters. A force that can process information and act on it faster than its adversary has a real advantage. But technology only creates that advantage when it reflects the way people actually work. 

Onebrief was built on that idea. The U.S. military uses our agentic collaborative planning software to help staffs compress planning cycles from hours to as few as 30 minutes. By combining planning and continuous simulation tools into a single environment, Onebrief gives commanders more time to evaluate options, adapt to changing conditions, and make well-informed decisions they can control and remain accountable for. 

Human accountability grows more important as SI grows more capable. We should move quickly to put these tools to work wherever they can strengthen American security, and we can match that speed with operational discipline and a clear understanding of the mission. Those are innately human responsibilities, and they belong at the center of this new technological frontier.

America was founded on the idea that we could do things differently. We cannot let other nations win the race to develop the next generation of technology, so we must keep adopting new capabilities and putting them to work faster than they can. 

SI is the next chance to do that. We should take it seriously, move with urgency, and ensure its benefits reach the people who defend this country.

We thank Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Director Kratsios for convening this summit and are grateful for President Trump’s commitment to American scientific and technological leadership. We will continue working alongside the administration and our industry partners to turn these advances into capabilities that deliver results and keep America both safe and dominant.

The technology is advancing. Our ability to put it to work must move just as fast.