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ODNI Outlines Counter-Intel Priority Technology Areas For Industry

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, October 22nd, 2021

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ODNI Outlines Counter-Intel Priority Technology Areas For Industry

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) last Friday released a fact sheet showing its priorities in safeguarding U.S. industry’s key technologies given China’s and Russia’s legal and illegal efforts to transfer these technologies for their respective national goals. The fact sheet, put out by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), prioritizes artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, the bioeconomy, quantum information science and technology, and semiconductors as areas “where the stakes are potentially greatest for U.S. economic and…

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