The U.S. government must leverage private sector research and development to achieve the goals of its AI Action Plan, Steve Orrin, Intel‘s federal chief technology officer and senior principal engineer, told Breaking Defense. Orrin said the federal government’s needs often mirror those of the private sector, citing examples ranging from logistics and supply chain management to healthcare and finance. “The way to think about chip innovation for public sector is understanding that public sector writ large is almost a macro of the broader private sector industries,” he said. “When we talk about chip innovation specific for the public sector, it’s this notion of taking private sector technology solutions and capabilities and federalizing them for the specific needs of the U.S. government,” Orrin said. AI Demands More From Power GridA central challenge to scaling AI is the power it consumes at every stage — from research to deployment.