Transformational AI and Data
Accelerating AI for Scientific Discovery
ModCon: Transformational AI and Data connects DOE national laboratories, industry, and academia to accelerate AI for science, supporting the development, scaling, and validation of next-generation models across a range of domains.
What is ModCon?
A Shared Foundation for Scientific AI
ModCon provides the capabilities, tools, and services that research teams need to move faster, build better models, and produce results that are reliable, reproducible, and ready to scale.
All capabilities are delivered through the American Science Cloud (AmSC), a secure, federated, science-optimized platform that connects DOE’s computing systems, experimental facilities, data resources, and high-performance networks.
Core Capabilities and Services
Baseline AI R&D Capabilities (BASE)
Reusable methods, frameworks, and tools that underpin accelerated AI.
Best Practices for Scientific Workflows (BPSW)
Guidance, patterns, and tools for integrating AI into scientific workflows.
Data Brokers & Standards (DBS)
Centralized access to FAIR datasets with standards and governance tools.
IP & Partnership Formation (IPPF)
Streamlined frameworks for collaboration across labs, industry, and academia.
Resources
Tools for Building AI Models
Discover foundational resources developed through ModCon, including models, data, and agent frameworks. These assets support research, development, and collaboration across the scientific AI community, with code and documentation available on GitHub.
Agent Cards
The Genesis Mission agent card template is a structured description of an AI agent that makes the agent discoverable, reusable, and interoperable. It documents what the agent does, who provides it, how to invoke it, what skills and tools it exposes, what inputs and outputs it supports, its authentication requirements, runtime details, intended uses, limitations, and safety considerations. In Genesis, agent cards help users and other agents understand whether an agent is appropriate for a task and how it can be safely integrated into workflows.
Genesis Skills is a collection of Claude Code skills that give Claude specialized capabilities for scientific discovery and engineering workflows. Part of the Genesis Mission, these skills encode domain expertise, connect to scientific data sources, and provide reproducible patterns for computational research/ Skills follow the Agent Skills open standard, making them portable across AI tools while leveraging Claude Code's extended features.
Genesis Mission Agent Skills Agentic Capabilities
Data Cards
The Genesis Mission data card template is a structured metadata document that describes a dataset — what it is, where it came from, who created it, how it can be accessed, and how it can be used. Datacards serve both humans (who need to understand a dataset before using it) and machines (automated pipelines that ingest, catalog, and validate datasets). In Genesis, every dataset — regardless of size, sensitivity, or publication state — should have a data card. A data card can be created at the same time as the dataset, or as early in the workflow as possible
Model Cards
The Genesis Mission model card template is a structured description of an AI model that explains what the model is, who developed it, what data and methods were used to train or fine-tune it, what inputs and outputs it supports, how it was evaluated, and what limitations or risks users should understand. In Genesis, model cards help make models discoverable, reusable, comparable, and trustworthy across teams by documenting intended uses, performance, provenance, compute environment, licensing, and safety considerations.
Integration
How ModCon and AmSC Work Together: ModCon provides the scientific AI capability layer. AmSC provides the secure, federated platform that delivers it. Model teams access ModCon capabilities through a single onboarding path on AmSC, with identity, data, compute, and inference handled by the platform. ModCon capabilities move onto AmSC as supported services through a shared transition to operations process, so teams get research grade methods on production infrastructure.
Contribute a Capability: ModCon is a partner ecosystem. Teams can contribute agents, models, workflows, and tools to the platform through a supported CI/CD and registration path. (Upcoming Links to contributor lifecycle docs.)
Events
Featured Event
ModCon Townhall: What is the Transformational AI Models Consortium?
Learn about ModCon and its role in DOE’s Genesis Mission Platform. This webinar describes ModCon’s crosscutting capabilities: Baseline AI Research and Development, Best Practices for Scientific Workflows, Data Brokers and Standards, and more. Attendees will gain an understanding of how ModCon supports collaborative, large-scale AI development across the DOE national laboratories—and how your Genesis Mission Request for Applications (RFA) research proposal can leverage this effort.
May 12, 2026
ModCon and AmSC Interconnections
ESnet’s Confab26 presentation spotlights how we partner to build transformational AI and data for the Genesis Mission.
May 7, 2026
ModCon: Building Transformational AI and Data for Science
AI+ Expo talk on ModCon’s AI and data capabilities.
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