The White House urges against closing DISA, as the 2019 House NDAA proposes, but it supports the bill's push for increased oversight on DOD's JEDI cloud procurement.

The order requires that CIOs report directly to the agency head.

The committee, made up of federal research and development leaders, will serve to "improve the coordination of Federal efforts related to AI to ensure continued U.S. leadership in this field."

Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Gary Peters call the office's goals "admirable," but say that it is "potentially a vehicle for cronyism and waste."

The news comes days after he was passed over for another role as director of the National Economic Council.

The Office of American Innovation wants to build this kind of capacity, the special assistant to the President said on Wednesday.