- White House, Treasury, DHS and DoW come together to launch Gold Eagle scheme
- The initiative will prevent duplicated work and prioritize vulnerability remediation
- Gold Eagle will also help to identify which systems could be at risk
The US Government has launched Gold Eagle, a new clearinghouse which looks to centralize vulnerability discovery and remediation against a backdrop of evolving AI-powered security threats.
Gold Eagle will serve as a central hub between federal agencies, AI developers, open-source software developers and critical infrastructure companies, in a bid to increase the speed of vulnerability discovery and prevent major incidents from occurring in the first place.
The scheme came about under President Trump’s June 2 2026 executive order ‘Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security’ and represents collaboration between the Treasury, the DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Department of War.
US Gold Eagle scheme addresses growing vulnerability exploitations
Under the scheme, vulnerabilities scanning will happen centrally to ensure multiple organizations aren’t independently repeating the same work. Gold Eagle will also identify which software, networks and critical infrastructure could be at risk, before coordinating fixes. The White House described the scheme as a “force multiplier.”
Although AI is largely to blame for the increase in attacks, Gold Eagle is set to fight fire with fire by employing AI to identify bugs too, using models like Anthropic’s Mythos.
“Through this strategic partnership, we will expand existing security measures to safeguard software and networks in the 21st century and continue to promote advancements in artificial intelligence,” DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin wrote.
The concept of a dedicated clearinghouse centralizes vulnerability management to ensure the right bugs are being prioritized and to cut through the noise of lower-quality reports. Its assistance will most likely be felt by the open-source community, which has limited resources and financial backing to identify and fix issues as effectively as enterprise software vendors.
“Under the leadership of President Trump, we are bringing a wartime footing to the cyber domain to relentlessly patch vulnerabilities,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth added.
