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National Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies


Added by:   National contact point
Added on:   09 Jul 2025
Updated by:   OECD analyst
Updated on:   14 Aug 2025

The National Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies encourages unity of effort across the U.S. government and provides a framework from which deliberate actions will affect multiple technology areas in a co-ordinated manner.

Name in original language

National Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies

Initiative overview

The Strategy is a follow-up document to the National Security Strategy released in December 2017, which calls for the U.S. to lead in science and technology by prioritising emerging technologies critical to economic growth and security.The initiative has the following objective(s):To promote the national security innovation base.To protect technology advantage.

Who has primary responsibility for developing the national AI strategy?

Several ministries

Name of responsible organisation (in English)

The White House

Who has primary responsibility to implementing the national strategy?

Several ministries

Name of responsible organisation for strategy implementation (in English)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Budget information available?

Not available

To what extent do you have mechanisms or other efforts to involve stakeholders in strategy design, implementation and monitoring?

Public consultation(s) and other engagement.

Has this initiative been evaluated?

Yes

Are evaluation results public?

No

About the policy initiative


Organisation:

  • The White House

Category:

  • National – Strategy

Participating organisations:


Participating countries:


Status:

  • Active

Start Year:

  • 2020

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