Critical Technology Initiative
Our faculty, research scientists, and partners work to quantify knowledge, supply chain criticality, and more to help prioritize financial investments and resource allocation and drive policy decisions that impact U.S. and world citizens in a meaningful way.
“I’d rather have decent answers to the right questions than great answers to irrelevant questions”
- Andrew Marshall
We believe that...
- Transformations in data and analytics enable fundamental change in what is possible around timely situational awareness and strategy.
- Nations can leverage technology choices, investments, and policy to redefine the playing field - in what knowledge matters and access to supply.
Vision
To create the intellectual foundations, data, and analytic tools to support the government in designing critical technology, supply chain, and infrastructure strategies that realize win-wins across its multiple objectives (national security, economic prosperity—including jobs, and social welfare—including health, environment, and equity), beyond profitability/growth.
Approach
- Develop timely situational awareness of domestic and international technology and production capabilities
- Identify innovations that transform national outcomes
- Propose strategic action, including policy
- Define critical technologies
- Develop metrics for national objectives (security, prosperity, social welfare) against which critical technologies should be judged
- Develop tools to provide transparency on trade-offs and win-wins for different technology choices as well as the costs/benefits of global (de-)coupling
- Propose strategic action, including policies, that cuts across individual agency missions
