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world. The United States is committed to a future where these technologies increase the security,
prosperity, and values of the American people and like-minded democracies. Our technology
strategy will enable the United States and like-minded democracies to work together to pioneer
new medicines that can cure diseases, increase the production of healthy foods that are
sustainably grown, diversify and strengthen our manufacturing supply chains, and secure energy
without reliance on fossil fuels, all while delivering new jobs and security for the American
people and our allies and partners. With bipartisan support, we have launched a modern
industrial strategy and already secured historic investments in clean energy, microelectronics
manufacturing, research, and development, and biotechnology, and we will work with Congress
to fully fund historic new authorizations for research and development. We also are doubling
down on our longstanding and asymmetric strategic advantage: attracting and retaining the
world’s best talent. Attracting a higher volume of global STEM talent is a priority for our
national security and supply chain security, so we will aggressively implement recent visa
actions and work with Congress to do more.
These investments will enable the United States to anchor an allied techno-industrial base that
will safeguard our shared security, prosperity and values. This means working with allies and
partners to harness and scale new technologies, and promote the foundational technologies of the
21st century, especially microelectronics, advanced computing and quantum technologies,
artificial intelligence, biotechnology and biomanufacturing, advanced telecommunications, and
clean energy technologies. We also will partner with like-minded nations to co-develop and
deploy technologies in a way that benefits all, not only the powerful, and build robust and
durable supply chains so that countries cannot use economic warfare to coerce others.
We are already rallying like-minded actors to advance an international technology ecosystem
that protects the integrity of international standards development and promotes the free flow of
data and ideas with trust, while protecting our security, privacy, and human rights, and enhancing
our competitiveness. That includes work through the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council to
foster transatlantic coordination on semiconductor and critical mineral supply chains, trustworthy
artificial intelligence, disinformation, the misuse of technology threatening security and human
rights, export controls, and investment screening, as well as through the Indo-Pacific Quad on
critical and emerging technologies, open, next-generation digital infrastructure, and people-to-
people exchanges. Across this work, we seek to bolster U.S. and allied technology leadership,
advance inclusive and responsible technology development, close regulatory and legal gaps,
strengthen supply chain security, and enhance cooperation on privacy, data sharing, and digital
trade.
We must ensure strategic competitors cannot exploit foundational American and allied
technologies, know-how, or data to undermine American and allied security. We are therefore
modernizing and strengthening our export control and investment screening mechanisms, and
also pursuing targeted new approaches, such as screening of outbound investment, to prevent
strategic competitors from exploiting investments and expertise in ways that threaten our
national security, while also protecting the integrity of allied technological ecosystems and
markets. We will also work to counter the exploitation of American’s sensitive data and
illegitimate use of technology, including commercial spyware and surveillance technology, and
we will stand against digital authoritarianism.
To achieve these goals, the digital backbones of the modern economy must be open, trusted,
interoperable, reliable, and secure. That requires working with a broad range of partners to