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Please join ITIF for a virtual panel featuring authors of a new book by MIT Press, Priority Technologies: Ensuring US Security and Shared Prosperity. Experts will discuss how to strengthen U.S. innovation and industrial ecosystems and which priority technologies will be critical to long-term global economic, military, and technological leadership in the decades ahead.

State and local governments face rising cybersecurity risks that strain budgets, disrupt services, and erode public trust. Governments need targeted investments in modern infrastructure, continuous monitoring, and stronger third-party risk management to protect critical services.

R&D intensity of the United States federal government, measured as R&D investment relative to GDP, experienced a marked decline, from 0.62 percent to 0.28 percent.

Canada’s cloud debate is asking the wrong question—control, not domestic ownership or server location, is what determines security and resilience in practice.

To the extent intervention is deemed necessary, ITIF respectfully urges the Competition and Markets Authority to avoid following the EU DMA’s path of heavy-handed regulation when it comes to potential steering measures in the app store space and instead look to other jurisdictions, like Japan, that have taken a more tailored and flexible approach.