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WASHINGTON \u2014 President Joe Biden\u2019s infrastructure plan released Wednesday calls for $180 billion in new research and development spending on emerging technologies expected to define the coming decades and drive military innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American Jobs Plan, which would total $2 trillion in new spending over a decade through corporate tax increases, addresses concerns that a lack of federal investment in research and development risks the U.S. seceding the position of the world\u2019s top technological innovator to China. Leading the world in technology is \u201ccritical to both our future economic competitiveness and our national security,\u201d Biden\u2019s plan stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Congress accepts the proposal, the government would try to counter China by pushing billions into emerging technologies \u2014 including quantum computing, artificial intelligence and microelectronics \u2014 that underpin weapon systems and will help the Pentagon compete in increasingly digital battlefields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInvesting $180 billion in R&D across the federal government and civilian agencies would be a significant down payment on the future of innovation at a time when federal R&D is its lowest in decades as a percentage of GDP,\u201d Tony Samp, senior policy adviser on artificial intelligence and defense for law firm DLA Piper, told C4ISRNET. \u201cAnd when game-changing technologies touch so many sectors of the economy, there are certainly ancillary benefits to this kind of civilian investment to national security and the Department of Defense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plan calls for a $50 billion investment in the National Science Foundation, where the Biden administration wants to create a new technology directorate to \u201ccollaborate with and build on existing programs across the government.\u201d The directorate would focus on semiconductors, advanced computing, advanced energy technologies and biotechnologies. The proposal is half of the $100 billion plan introduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for a similar NSF technology directorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden also calls for a $40 billion investment in upgrading research labs across the country, \u201cincluding brick-and-mortar facilities and computing capabilities and networks.\u201d Some of the funds would be allocated across the federal R&D agencies. Half the money would be reserved for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other minority-serving institutions, a core aspect of Biden\u2019s plan to provide new opportunities to underserved communities. The U.S. Department of Defense also recently opened a networking center of excellence<\/a> at the University of California, Riverside, as part of its Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions Research and Education Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Megan Lamberth, research associate at the Center for a New American Security, said that the White House plan harkened back to public investments by the federal government during the Cold War that led to the development of the internet and other advanced technologies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe plan itself focuses on what I see as the bedrock of U.S. innovation. It touches on our people, our infrastructure and our investments,\u201d Lamberth said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden plan seeks to address the semiconductor supply chain challenges faced by the U.S. government by spending $50 billion on manufacturing and research. Semiconductor manufacturing largely takes place outside the U.S., raising security concerns about the core technology for everything from smartphones to 5G networks to fighter jets. The Biden proposal matches a $50 billion investment in semiconductors from a bipartisan bill called the CHIPS Act passed in last year\u2019s defense authorization bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supply chain concerns spurred Biden\u2019s proposal for $50 billion to create a new office at the Department of Commerce to support domestic production of technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plan includes $35 billion for climate science and related \u201ctechnology breakthroughs,\u201d an area impacting the military more as severe weather affects some military operations and installations, and a warming planet contributes power struggles in the Arctic. On top of that, the plan includes $15 billion for \u201cdemonstration projects\u201d for numerous climate R&D priorities, including quantum computing, energy storage, and separation of rare earth elements, which are used in many defense systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of opportunity for government and industry collaboration,\u201d Lambert said. \u201cThere\u2019d be less pushback from industry to work on issues related to climate change, and I think it\u2019s just a really important issue to the public. It\u2019s an issue that people can rally around.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If approved, the plan would deliver over half of Biden\u2019s campaign promise to invest $300 billion in research and development<\/a> over four years. In recent months, U.S. officials have ramped up calls for broader federal spending on innovation, particularly after the release of a National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence report that recommended billions in spending on AI and microelectronics research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. investment in basic R&D has fallen from almost 2 percent of gross domestic product in 1964 to just 0.7 percent in 2016, alarming experts that the U.S. isn\u2019t spending enough to harness technological breakthroughs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy including technology innovation and R&D in its infrastructure and jobs package to \u2018out-compete\u2019 China, the Biden administration is smartly tapping into bipartisan concerns and making a broader jobs package more appealing,\u201d Samp said. \u201cThe R&D portion would strengthen the U.S.\u2019 ability to stay competitive in technologies of the future and create jobs at home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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