The funding will provide $17m for research focused specifically on artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches for prediction of key plasma phenomena, management of facility operations, and accelerated discovery through data science, among other topics.
An additional $13m under a separate funding opportunity will be devoted to fundamental fusion theory research, including computer modelling and simulation, focused on factors affecting the behaviour of hot plasmas confined by magnetic fields in fusion reactors.
Applications for the artificial intelligence and machine learning funding are open to national laboratories, universities, non-profit organisations, and private sector companies.
Applications for the theory funding are open to universities, non-profit organisations and private sector companies.