Washington Built the AI Infrastructure AUKUS Needs — Then Locked Allies Out

The Manhattan Project brought allied scientists to Los Alamos because winning required pooling allied scientific capacity. Today, as Australia invests $3.4 billion in quantum and advanced defense technologies and autonomous capabilities, the United States has built the supercomputing infrastructure those technologies require — then locked its partners out of accessing it.President Donald Trump’s Genesis Mission invokes that wartime urgency to win the AI race — but the November executive order gives American companies detailed frameworks to access federal supercomputers while offering international security partners one vague sentence about exploring collaboration “to the extent appropriate.”That isn’t an accident: It reflects policy priorities. The Department of Defense’s January

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