Transportation turns to AI to trace research grant recipients’ links to foreign adversaries
Transportation's senior advisor for AI, Neil Chaudhry, speaks Oct. 14 at the SAP Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C. Zaid Hamid/Nextgov/FCW
ByEdward Graham,
Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW
October 15, 2026 02:13 PM ET
Neil Chaudhry, senior advisor for AI at Transportation, says the agency has worked with its partners to create “some really robust AI tools” to analyze the recipients of its research grants.
The Department of Transportation has been using artificial intelligence to determine whether grant recipients have ties to adversarial nations, an agency official said on Wednesday.
The federal government has taken a variety of steps in recent years to limit hostile foreign governments’ access to American research, including restricting access to individuals or entities connected with countries like Iran or Russia. As the U.S. seeks to maintain its dominance over China in the global tech race, the Trump administration and Congress...
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