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From: Council on CompetitivenessDeborah L. Wince-Smith, President and CEO On behalf of the Council on Competitiveness, and its National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers, thank you for the opportunity to provide our views on development of the Administration’s new Artificial Intelligence Action Plan in response to President Trump’s January 23 Executive Order. The Council […]

The Council and our members are working assiduously to advance the competitiveness agenda in Washington — and around the country — during this period of rapid change and transformation. We just unveiled an expanded version of the National Commission’s strategic roadmap, Competing in the Next Economy: Innovation in the Age of Disruption & Discontinuity, on […]

In December 2024, Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached the U.S. Treasury Department's computer systems, exploiting vulnerabilities in third-party cybersecurity provider BeyondTrust. This attack, labeled a "major incident" by Treasury officials, exposed unclassified documents and highlighted the growing sophistication of state-backed cyber espionage. According to America’s Cyber Defense Agency, China remains the most active cyber security threat to […]

More than any other driving force, the power of multiple game-changing technologies is creating the future of U.S. economic and national security. These technologies are all “dual use”, holding unprecedented opportunities for innovation, and solutions to global challenges in food, energy, health, water, and resource preservation. These technologies, which will have profound impacts on our […]

The Council’s Technology Leadership & Strategy Initiative (TLSI) celebrated its 15th anniversary at Lockheed Martin's Global Vision Center. CTOs from business, academia, and the U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories came together for the TLSI’s 30th Dialogue to discuss strategies for advancing the U.S. defense industrial base and the country’s innovation ecosystem. These leaders also debated and drafted […]

Today, the Council on Competitiveness issued a statement urging the Trump Administration to reconsider the National Institute of Health (NIH) directive, which reduces indirect cost reimbursement to no more than 15 percent.

Despite the increasing need for cybersecurity expertise worldwide, the size of the global cybersecurity workforce remained broadly flat at 5.5 million workers from 2023 to 2024, according to the ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study. Over the same two-year time period, the need for cybersecurity workers increased from just over 9 million to approximately 10.2 million. As […]

With multiple converging and compounding technological revolutions underway, China becoming an ever-more-serious adversary, and with a new Congress and administration taking up the reigns in Washington, now is a critical time for a forward-thinking competitiveness agenda from the Council. The Council delivers that agenda in its latest report, Competing in the Next Economy: Innovating in […]

Council on Competitiveness President and CEO Deborah Wince-Smith has issued a letter strongly supporting the nomination of Michael Kratsios for director of OSTP to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chairman Cruz and Ranking Member Cantwell.

In the early hours of his presidency, Donald Trump signed several Executive Orders (EOs) likely to affect higher education. Though it will take time to fully understand the implications of these orders—and many may face legal challenges—there are some immediate impacts across the research community from certain orders. Three are highlighted here: 1. The EO […]