2024 Critical and Emerging Technologies List - U.S.

In February 2024, the National Science and Technology Council, within the Executive Office of the President of the United States, published a document titled, Critical and Emerging Technologies List Update. The document overview notes:

The 2022 National Security Strategy identifies three national security interests: protect the security of the American people, expand economic prosperity and opportunity, and realize and defend the democratic values at the heart of the American way of life. The NSTC established this Fast Track Action Subcommittee in 2020 to identify critical and emerging technologies to inform national security-related activities. This list identifies CETs with the potential to further these interests and builds on the October 2020 National Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies, which contains an initial list of priority CETs. This updated document expands upon that original CET list and the February 2022 update by identifying subfields for each CET with a focus, where possible, on core technologies that continue to emerge and modernize, while remaining critical to a free, open, secure, and prosperous world.

The interagency process included U.S. government subject matter experts from 18 departments, agencies, and Executive Office of the President, who identified subfields which may be critical to U.S. national security.

Critical and Emerging Technologies List 

The following critical and emerging technology areas are of particular importance to the national security of the United States: