The Evolving Landscape of U.S. Economic Security: The Confluence of Trade, Technology, and National Security

Economic Security: | 25 The Confluence of Trade, Technology, and National Security A monumental shift in the focus and priorities of the dual-use notion and their convergence with the economic security discourse occurred in 2018 with the U. [...] In particular, the criteria to define new controls are: 1) The development of emerging and foundational technologies in foreign countries; 2) The effect export controls may have on the development of such technologies in the United States; and 3) The effectiveness of export controls on limiting the proliferation of emerging and foundational technologies in foreign countries of concern.6 These crit. [...] Department of Commerce’s Strategic Plan, the first operative action is to enforce the nation’s trade and security laws, drawing from the priority of ensuring security through the domestic production of technology and essential products.9 The nature of technology flows and the challenge of trying to establish control measures to protect domestic technology innovation, squarely places the need to ma. [...] At the Executive Level, a new inter-agency Fast Track Action Subcommittee on Critical and Emerging Technologies was established by the National Science and Technology Council in 2020 to “identify critical and emerging technologies to inform national security-related activities.” In 2022, the subcommittee, the Council, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy updated the list of Critical and. [...] Economic Security: | 33 The Confluence of Trade, Technology, and National Security chain and technology focused committees and offices, such as the Department of Commerce’s Emerging Technology Technical Advisory Committee, set up subsequent to the 2018 ECRA, and others in the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and others.