Washington, D.C. (07/08/2022) – A new analysis in Forbes by Dr. Loren B. Thompson of the Lexington Institute explains why bills like the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (S. 2992) could undermine America’s ability to compete economically with China and disrupt technologies used in our national security infrastructure.
…Beijing is leveraging its dynamic economy to become a much bigger military…but the core of the challenge remains economic and technological in character…Against that backdrop, the rising tide of regulation aimed at U.S. tech companies is…potentially a hindrance to staying on top…
…This matters to national security because…the key to competing globally is the pace at which a nation innovates…During the Second World War Raytheon played a pivotal role in supplying game-changing radar to the Allied powers…
…What makes…innovation in national security different today is that most of the technologies the Pentagon considers top-priority for the future are primarily commercial in nature…Among the…technologies are microelectronics, 5G communications, biotechnology, digital networking, quantum computing and artificial intelligence…These are all areas in which Big Tech companies like Google are deeply engaged…
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