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Kratsios Testifies on Advancing the AI Action Plan Before a House Science Subcommittee, Jan. 14, 2026

January 14, 2026 · House Science, Space, and Technology Committee · 2:39:30

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What happened

Michael Kratsios testified on January 14, 2026 before the House Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Research and Technology at its hearing titled “Advancing America’s AI Action Plan,” chaired by Representative Jay Obernolte, according to the subcommittee. Kratsios was the hearing’s only witness.

In his written testimony, Kratsios said that over the plan’s first six months “the Administration has moved from strategy to execution,” with OSTP coordinating implementation milestones across the federal government. He highlighted the Genesis Mission — fusing federal datasets with advanced supercomputing to automate experiment design and accelerate simulations — and the administration’s hiring plans for the U.S. Tech Force, according to PYMNTS’s report of the hearing, and he urged Congress to provide regulatory clarity, including work with Congress and AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks on federal standards rather than a patchwork of state rules, according to AIP’s account. Democratic members pressed him on how the administration’s technology agenda fits with funding cuts at federal science agencies and the 2025 workforce reductions at government technology teams, according to PYMNTS — criticism carried here as reported.

Why it matters

Six months after the AI Action Plan’s release, this hearing is the point where OSTP’s claim shifted from announcing the plan to reporting execution — the Genesis Mission, the Tech Force, and the federal-standards push Kratsios named here are the deliverables his office is measured against for the rest of the term on this site.

Scoreboard watch

This is a candidate item for the weekly scoreboard: the execution milestones Kratsios reported on January 14, 2026 — Genesis Mission participation, American AI Export Program proposals, U.S. Tech Force staffing, and federal AI standards work with Congress — each as stated at the hearing, to be checked as they produce dated results.

Sources: House Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Research and Technology, hearing “Advancing America’s AI Action Plan,” January 14, 2026 (full hearing as carried by the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee channel, embedded above); Kratsios’s written testimony to the subcommittee, January 14, 2026 (House Science Committee Democrats’ posting); PYMNTS and AIP (American Institute of Physics) reports of the hearing, January 2026. All figures and characterizations as stated by Mr. Kratsios and committee members at the hearing.