It’s time to recalibrate the debate over defence innovation. Nothing illustrates how far we’ve drifted like the current passion for ‘picking winners’. The phrase was once pejorative.
While American policymakers, founders, and investors debate priorities, craft proposals, and wrestle with fragmented funding approaches, China moves forward with single-minded purpose, committed to dominating critical technology sectors.
America must stop playing defense – we need to increase our speed and boldness now to outcompete China in the technologies that will define the next century.
As a leading investor in frontier technologies that advance United States competitiveness, America’s Frontier Fund (AFF) believes that strategic investment is essential in areas where capital markets have failed to meet national needs
