The Genesis Project is not a science policy — it is a procurement architecture. The 26 priorities that replaced the mandates of NSF, NASA, NIST, and NIH were not derived from scientific need assessments or peer-reviewed gaps in the research literature [6]. They were derived from the data and validation requirements of AI companies operating commercially. The distinction matters because procurement architectures optimize for supplier fit, not scientific breadth. Researchers who cannot structure their proposals around the Genesis categories will not compete — not because they are doing poor science,…