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Dialogue 32 gathered TLSI members and distinguished guests at Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth, Texas facility, headquarters of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics and home of the F-35 Lightning II production line, for a highly productive day focused on framing the next era of U.S. competitiveness as the Council marks its 40th anniversary. Attendees responded to select findings […]

From April 29–30, 2026, the Council on Competitiveness held the twelfth installment of its "Competitiveness Conversations Across America" series, under the auspices of the National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers. Hosted at the Durham Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, in partnership with the University of Nebraska System, this event, "Competitiveness Conversation: Nebraska – Leading the […]

New results from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) offer a sobering signal. Across OECD countries, average performance among 15-year-olds reached its lowest recorded level in mathematics and reading in 2025. Since 2015, reading scores have fallen 28 points, equivalent to roughly a year and a half […]

Dear Council on Competitiveness Community, Forty years after our founding, the Council on Competitiveness’ mission has never been more important: advancing innovation-led productivity growth, inclusive prosperity, the success of U.S.-created and U.S.-developed goods and services in global markets, and resilience and security for Americans. Nor has the Council’s National Competitiveness Forum (NCF), where we work […]

The Council is highlighting two related trends in the U.S. economy. For much of the modern era, rising productivity and compensation moved broadly together, helping drive higher living standards. Drawing on Bureau of Labor Statistics data since 1973, the first graphic shows the extraordinary gains in U.S. productive capacity over the past five decades alongside […]

Dear Council on Competitiveness Community, As summer winds down and we approach Labor Day, the Council team and I have been reflecting on how much the competitive landscape has changed since the Council’s founding in 1986. The global competitiveness landscape has shifted dramatically in 40 years. And unprecedented waves of technological revolutions – and the […]

The Clarion Call, and partner infographic, is issued by the Council on Competitiveness to identify critical global economic transformations and put forth a set of recommendations for policymakers that would strengthen the United States’ economic foundation and allow for long-term, sustained growth.

The U.S. job market is undergoing a fundamental transformation. In 1983, when the U.S. economy supported roughly 100 million jobs, most positions were accessible to workers with no education beyond high school. By 2031, as the economy grows to an estimated 171 million jobs, nearly three-quarters of all jobs will require some form of postsecondary […]

Dear Council on Competitiveness Community, The third edition of our 2026 "Competitiveness Conversations Across America," San Diego: Building the Next Economy’s Strategic Innovation Stack — Compute, AI, Energy, Bio, Autonomy, and Security, was as incredibly insightful and engaging as the past dozen. Under the vision of Council Executive Committee Member and UC San Diego Chancellor […]

Dear Council on Competitiveness Community, The celebration of our Council’s 40th anniversary and the nation's 250th Independence Day is the right time to consider the extraordinary role innovation – encompassing imagination, insight, ingenuity, invention, and impact – has always played in America’s history of prosperity and global leadership.  As we noted in our seminal report, […]