The Women's Health Initiative, begun in the 1990s, has made many important discoveries. Now funding to collect more research data will end in September.

The decision was made because the National Institutes of Health, which funds the Women's Health Initiative, or WHI, has "initially exceeded its internal targets for contract reductions," Nixon said.

The Department of Defense (DoD) faces two crises in microelectronics: lack of American manufacturing capacity and hardware limitations for data-centric AI applications.