The White House has launched Gold Eagle, an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse that brings open-source software partners, industry and government together to identify and fix vulnerabilities threatening critical infrastructure.
The White House has launched Gold Eagle, an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse designed to coordinate the protection of open-source software and US critical infrastructure against increasingly sophisticated AI-discovered cyber threats.
The initiative brings together open-source software partners, AI and cybersecurity companies, critical infrastructure operators including utilities and banks, and government agencies. Gold Eagle is a joint effort led by the US Treasury Department, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Department of Defense (Pentagon).
The platform is intended to validate newly discovered vulnerabilities, prevent organisations from duplicating scanning and remediation efforts, prioritise the most critical security issues, and coordinate engineering teams to fix them more efficiently.
A senior White House official said, “These new capabilities make vulnerability discovery at a scale … that we have not seen before.” The official added that the clearinghouse will “deconflict and make sure resources are not being wasted, fixing or scanning for the same vulnerabilities, that those vulnerabilities are validated,” before “a team of industry and government engineers are working to triage, prioritize and fix those vulnerabilities.”
The White House declined to identify participating organisations but confirmed the project includes open-source software partners and American critical infrastructure companies. The initiative recognises the growing importance of open-source software, much of which is maintained by volunteers with limited security resources despite underpinning critical digital infrastructure.
The announcement follows lessons from the 2021 Log4j security crisis, which exposed hundreds of millions of devices worldwide.
Gold Eagle fulfils a requirement in President Donald Trump’s June 2026 AI security executive order, which also mandates a framework requiring advanced AI models to be submitted to the federal government for review up to 30 days before release to trusted partners. The move comes amid growing calls for more consistent AI governance and cybersecurity coordination.
