Trump September EO Requires 'Super Intelligence' in New Federal Solicitations Including ICE Surveillance Systems

The executive order issued at the end of September directs agencies to adopt 'Super Intelligence' or 'SI' for all new materials. Immigration and Customs Enforcement followed with a solicitation for SI-powered surveillance tools targeting detention facilities. Government websites have swapped terminology, though the National Institutes of Health added transition banners and Pentagon Project Meridian initially retained prior language. Defense Secretary Hegseth and multiple agency releases continued using 'AI' in early October statements.

Compliance data from solicitations and site audits show uneven adoption one month post-order. The Federal Trade Commission used lowercase 'superintelligence' while Health and Human Services outputs omitted the term entirely. Prior rebrands such as Gulf of America produced measurable exclusion of non-compliant outlets from briefings. This pattern converts lexical choice into an operational filter for access and funding.

The rebrand functions as an allegiance mechanism that ties AI terminology to administrative control. When applied to surveillance procurement it links narrative enforcement directly to privacy-invasive systems deployed by ICE. Employees at national labs report self-correction during meetings, indicating internal monitoring of language that extends beyond public outputs.

Next quarter will test whether a follow-on rule bans legacy terms in existing programs and whether private contractors bidding on federal work mirror the shift. Non-adoption risks contract disqualification while adoption embeds the terminology in operational code and data pipelines.