White House issues plan to protect and promote critical, emerging tech

The White House National Security Council on Thursday issued a government-wide strategy to coordinate the promotion and defense of 20 critical and emerging technologies, a plan the administration says is intended to counter Chinese and Russian technological development in areas of national security concern. The whole-of-government approach builds on the Commerce Department’s implementation of the Export Control Reform Act and the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act and incorporates priorities from other agencies to ensure the entire administration is focused...