Pillar 5: Accelerating 10x Technology Development and Deployment at Speed and Scale

As technology advances more rapidly each year, and as global competitors develop and scale technologies at blistering speeds, the United States must accelerate innovation through the deployment of cutting-edge technologies across all sectors of the economy. Business, government, academia, and national laboratories must be empowered to move faster to test, prove, and scale innovations to ensure every sector of the U.S. economy is operating with the most advanced products, services, and technical solutions.

Recommendations

1. Adapt warp speed models to expedite R&D, smart regulation, permitting, and deployment of new technologies at speed and scale.
   
2. Expand federal and private sector partnerships, co-investment, and personnel exchanges in new and disruptive fields driven by rapid technology convergence.
   
3. Allocate from .05–1.0 percent of federal research grants to support the technology commercialization process, including I.P. protection, prototyping, and overall technology transfer services.
   
4. Expand the role of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Laboratories in ongoing strategic partnerships with U.S. industry in commercializing Labgenerated I.P.
   
5. Establish a fixed portfolio of renewable funding for National Laboratories to perform long-term R&D in support of future missions.
   
6. Authorize federal pilot acquisition systems for frontier technologies to rapidly acquire dual-use technologies from the commercial sector for advancing government missions.
   
7. Preserve the Bayh-Dole Act’s “march-in” rights for government agency research sponsors without using such rights to force industry price controls.
   
8. Create State agencies to coordinate and expedite regulatory processes and permitting, and to provide technical assistance to small and medium businesses.