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1 MRS BULLETIN • VOLUME 48 • MAY 2023 • mrs.org/bulletin T Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) was announced in 2011 as a US Government multiagency effort to accelerate the discovery, design, development, and deployment of new materials twice as fast as before, at a fraction of the cost.1 The MGI seeks to overcome the time for insertion of a new material (from the current decades time frame reduced to a few years) by aligning the product design process with the materials design process, so that they can proceed hand-in-glove. This goal was to be accomplished through the creation of a materials innovation infrastructure that, through the fusion of computational and experimental methods mediated by well-managed data, could substantially lower the barriers to state-of-the-art material characterization, simulation, and testing techniques in materials R&D. This reduction in barriers is the hallmark of MGI, as the ideas themselves are not especially new, but the impediments to their implementation can be substantial, requiring significant investments that are often the sole provenance of multibillion-dollar revenue corporations or, in a few cases, small ventures that specialize in such techniques. It is thus unsurprising that MGI research often requires larger research teams, as single-investigator endeavors are unlikely to have the broad portfolio of methods required for such an undertaking, and research grants supporting these types of efforts are commensurately larger. There are a number of MGI-specific programs that have been A successful strategy for MGI‐inspired research