geotech: implementation at home, partnerships abroad

Throughout 2022, CSPC continued its engagement with U.S. and allied policymakers, private sector leaders, and academic experts regarding strategically critical technologies, policies to promote innovation leadership, geopolitical and strategic competition, and trends in commerce, trade, and technology. Thanks to re-opened international travel, we were able to return to in-person convening of international experts in Washington and overseas.

This report reflects, and respects, the off-the-record nature of these discussions, combined with open-source research and the analysis of CSPC staff, advisors, and fellows. In the updates on Geotech policy in competitors China and Russia and ally Japan, CSPC staff and fellows have lent their expertise and analysis to the work of our research team. Our analysis of legislation is not meant to be exhaustive—nor endorse legislation—but to track the progress of substantive, and likely, Geotech policymaking and implementation.

In 2022, following our January geotech report on the early actions of the Biden administration, CSPC has continued to track geotech developments. A sector-specific report specifically focused on the latest developments in 5G and 6G technology and how U.S. policies can be better tailored to promote leadership in these technologies, encourage continued Open RAN development, and protect the intellectual property that underpins innovation in these fields.

The report early this year encouraged greater and faster action from the administration and Congress befitting the recognition of the geotech challenge. Now, the events of 2022 have made the scope and nature of the challenge all the clearer, and a bipartisan geotech consensus is clear. Now, the challenge grows even more complex, as we must not only keep up with the pace of competitors abroad but also ensure that we make the right investments in our future innovation leadership, economic strength, and national security.

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TITLE:

Geotech: Implementations at Home, Partnerships Abroad.

publication date:

December 2022