Armada Joins DOE's Genesis Mission as Official Infrastructure Collaborator

Armada has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Department of Energy to advance the Genesis Mission, a historic national effort that will use the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate discovery science, strengthen national security, and drive energy innovation. CEO Dan Wright attended the announcement at the White House on December 18, joining other collaborators including NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Microsoft.

The partnership positions Armada to deploy its Galleon modular data centers across the National Laboratory system, addressing what Genesis Mission Director Dr. Darío Gil has described as "a defining moment for the next era of American science" that aims to create an integrated platform linking supercomputers, AI systems, and scientific instruments. The ambitious mission will harness the current AI and advanced computing revolution to double the productivity and impact of American science and engineering within a decade.

Armada's value proposition centers on deployment speed. The company can deliver megawatts of GPU-dense compute to laboratory sites in months rather than the multi-year timelines associated with traditional data center construction. This rapid deployment capability addresses a critical bottleneck as the Genesis Mission seeks to rapidly expand compute capacity across DOE's 17 National Laboratories. According to Wright, "America's scientists need access to massive compute resources without waiting half a decade for new facilities to come online."

The company's Bridge software will enable GPU-as-a-Service across both new Galleon deployments and existing laboratory facilities. This unified approach allows for flexible resource allocation and high utilization rates across distributed compute infrastructure. The Genesis Mission framework specifically calls for integrating federal and partner compute resources into what officials describe as the world's most powerful scientific platform.

Genesis Mission represents a shift toward public-private partnership models for national science infrastructure. Today's White House meeting between industry participants, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Under Secretary Dr. Darío Gil, and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Michael Kratsios helped launch public-private innovation partnerships in AI technologies to secure scalable infrastructure for scientific computing. The DOE continues accepting submissions through open requests for information, with deadlines extending into January 2026.

Wright positioned Armada's distributed infrastructure as aligned with what he termed the mission's focus on "speed, scale, and sovereignty." The emphasis on sovereign compute reflects Genesis Mission priorities around secure, domestically controlled AI infrastructure for scientific research spanning energy systems, national security applications, and discovery science across multiple domains.