Today, the AI Policy Network applauded the House Appropriations Committee for including three of its top AI security priorities in the FY27 Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriations draft. They include: a new NIST grant program for AI chip hardware security and location verification standards; $16 million for export control enforcement data infrastructure at the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS); and a 50 percent funding increase for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI).

“Subcommittee Chairman Hal Rogers and Ranking Member Grace Meng are leading on AI security,” said Mark Beall, Jr., President of the AI Policy Network. “The Senate should further arm CAISI with the resources it needs to test, evaluate, and prepare for even more powerful AI.”

Key AI security provisions in the House FY27 CJS draft include:

• NIST grant program for AI chip hardware security and location verification. The bill directs NIST, through CAISI, to administer a grant program for hardware security and secure location verification for AI chips, and to develop voluntary standards based on findings from the program.
  
  
• $16 million for BIS export control enforcement data infrastructure. The bill provides $16 million for BIS IT modernization and data integration, including not less than $5 million for the procurement and deployment of commercial datasets, data fusion, and data sharing capabilities. BIS is also directed to coordinate with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to capture full Export Control Classification Numbers in the Automated Export System (AES), closing a known data gap that has limited the government’s ability to track controlled items after export.
  
  
• Up to $15 million for CAISI, a 50 percent increase from FY26. The bill tasks CAISI with advancing artificial intelligence research, standards development, and testing capabilities.
  
  

About the AI Policy Network

The AI Policy Network is an independent 501(c)(4) association of AI researchers, national security leaders, and entrepreneurs working with elected officials to prepare the United States for powerful AI systems and their implications. AIPN urges Congress to: 

• PROTECT America’s technological edge. 
• PROMOTE American AI at home and abroad. 
• PREPARE for increasingly powerful AI, including superintelligence.