National Strategy for Critical & Emerging Technologies
The Administration recently released the "National Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies," which outlines how the United States will promote and protect our competitive edge in wide-ranging technologies that are critical to U.S. national security and economic advantage. The national strategy provides a holistic framework communicating how our nation will approach critical and emerging technologies through a two pillar approach – emphasizing the need to both promote and protect key technology areas, while working with Allies and Partners to balance risk and push back against great power competitors that threaten our advantages. The strategy consolidates input from across the federal government and, for the first time at a national level, defines critical and emerging technology areas that should be accounted for in order to ensure continued U.S. leadership and and national and economic security. Finally, the strategy provides a coordinated whole-of-government approach that encourages private-public partnership to focus and fuel the National Security Innovation Base, and serves as a foundational step to stakeholder departments and agencies to promote and protect U.S. technology leadership and national advantage.
Christopher Forrest is the director for Defense Innovation and Emerging Technologies on detail to the National Security Council staff from the U.S. Air Force. His portfolio entails development and coordination of U.S. government policy for critical and emerging technologies, development of defense policy and strategy, and managing interagency processes for national security decision making for the National Security Advisor and the President. Previous to his detail on the NSC, Chris served as the Indo-Pacific Division Chief, Headquarters Air Force CHECKMATE, Pentagon. His portfolio entailed assessment, operational planning support, lethal and non-lethal effect integration, clean-sheet strategy and concept development for the China and North Korea problem sets.
