The White House's "Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan" outlines a strategic vision for the United States to secure its leadership in artificial intelligence by focusing on innovation, security, and a robust data foundation. It emphasizes the importance of a transparent and searchable data ecosystem as essential for managing and understanding the data that drives AI, addressing challenges such as bias detection, cybersecurity, and supply chain resilience. The plan advocates for the creation of a national "AI Evaluations Ecosystem" to build public trust by ensuring transparency and objectivity in AI outputs. It also highlights the necessity of developing a secure national AI infrastructure to protect against novel threats, advocating for a unified data platform to enhance defense capabilities. The plan suggests a preference for an open, interoperable approach to technology policy, which would prevent vendor lock-in and foster a competitive environment, thereby supporting national resilience. Elastic, a proponent of open-source principles, promotes its role in helping the government achieve this vision by providing a versatile data platform to maintain control over data and enhance both innovation and security.