Critical technologies underpin our national security and drive our economic prosperity.
The Australian Government is addressing the opportunities and risks of critical technologies with the release of the new Blueprint and Action Plan, which contain the Government’s first List of Critical Technologies in the National Interest.
The Blueprint sets out the vision, while the Action Plan outlines what Australia is doing to protect and promote critical technologies. These technologies can facilitate economic and jobs growth, secure our manufacturing and agricultural competitiveness, improve our health outcomes, enable our energy transition, strengthen our defence forces and much more.
Critical technologies can be digital such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, as well as non-digital such as synthetic biology and genomics. The Blueprint and Action Plan showcase the Australian government’s coherent, forward leaning strategy and actions on critical technologies.
Industry and academia were consulted during development to better understand which technologies are most critical to our national interest.
Read the full media release from the Prime Minister, the Hon Scott Morrison MP.
More information on the Blueprint and Action Plan is available on the Critical Technologies Policy Coordination Office website