United States Releases National Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies

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OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Today, President Trump signed the 2020 National Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies, which outlines how the United States will maintain its global leadership in wide-ranging technologies, including in the fields of conventional weapons, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and space. This first whole-of-government strategy will maintain American leadership in these critical fields.

As our competitors and adversaries mobilize vast resources in these areas, American commitment to science and technology is more important than ever. Maintaining our competitive edge is critical to our long-term national and security and economic stability and growth. The United States will not turn a blind eye to the tactics of countries such as the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China, which steal technology, coerce companies into handing over intellectual property, and surreptitiously divert emerging civilian technologies to build up their militaries. We will strengthen rules where gaps exist, enforce agreements, and work with like-minded allies and partners to ensure our common principles prevail as global norms and best practices.

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Critical Technologies Institute annual 1997 report

Edited by Miriam Polon

This report summarizes CTI's research activities in 1997 according to the main areas of inquiry: environment and health; space and transportation; critical infrastructure and technology; technology in education and training; and the federal R&D portfolio. Each section summarizes the year's major projects and highlights a specific project in detail.

Critical Technologies Institute Annual Report: 1995-1996

Since its inception in 1992, the Critical Technologies Institute (CTI) mission has not changed. That mission is to help improve public policy that involves or affects science and technology by providing objective, independent research and analytic support to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and, through that office, to other federal agencies and organizations.

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As our work has progressed, our understanding of that mission has continued to evolve and deepen. We have come to interpret it as one of informing a dialogue between the divergent worlds of science and politics, and, within the government, between various competing policy interests. Political leaders rightly observe that the field of science and technology (S&T) produces benefits for government and society. This does not mean, however, that the worlds of science and politics communicate easily or well. As the role of S&T in society has grown, so has the need for objective policy analysis to provide a factual grounding for debate and decisions affecting the S&T community. RAND and CTI have credibility in both of these worlds and so can inform and facilitate this dialogue.

In carrying out this mission, CTI relies on a diversified portfolio of analytic activities.

Conducting analyses that clarify issues and assess alternatives for potential national policies.

Regularly assessing science and technology areas to identify the need for policy action.

Identifying and developing relations with experts in critical technical and institutional areas.

Monitoring the interests of the Executive Office of the President and Congress to identify areas of analysis and fact-finding that should be considered by CTI and the rest of RAND.

Developing methodologies and acquiring and collating data to improve future analytic efforts.

Using a mix of communication means to inform a broad audience of stakeholders.

The challenge in carrying out these activities is to make high-quality analytic contributions while understanding the diverse character of the decisionmaking environment surrounding S&T policy. We look forward to meeting this challenge.

Bruce W. Don

Director

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Emerging technology trends

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