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Trump Administration Issues Strategy To Promote, Protect Technology Leadership

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, October 15th, 2020

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Trump Administration Issues Strategy To Promote, Protect Technology Leadership

President Donald Trump. Photo: White House.

The Trump administration on Thursday released a national strategy designed to better align the federal government’s enterprise efforts in promoting and protecting U.S. innovation and advantages in critical and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), advanced conventional weapons, quantum computing and space. No new funding or sanctions were rolled out in conjunction with the National Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies, but a senior administration official told media during a background call that “what it does signal is a…

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