High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative: A Paradigm for National Industrial Policy?
Abstract
The United States finds itself at a very important strategic juncture. Technological leadership, once the hallmark of American industrial might, is continuing to erode, and with it industrial productivity and personal standards of living. The success of America's trading partners, particularly Japan, coupled with the potential threat posed by a united Europe, has heightened interest in the formulation of a strategic, long-term, and highly focused national industrial policy. In that regard, the High-Performance Computing Act and the High-Performance Computing and Communications Initiative, while directly responding to threats to technological leadership, indirectly offers a paradigm for the formulation and execution of industrial policy. This research specifically looks at the high-performance domestic and international computer industry, addresses the requirements for continued government research and development spending, offers specific recommendations for improving government and industry cooperative efforts (consortia) and examines how future government policy could be better focused to improve productivity and increase national wealth.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1992
- Accession Number
- ADA262246
Entities
People
- Marlin G. Forbes Jr.
Organizations
- Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy