Principles
Principles that form the basis of Trust and protect freedoms. There principles enable fast, frictionless, and secure collaboration.
- Integrity
- Accountability
- Transparency
- Reciprocity
Respect for:
- Rule of Law
- Property
- Sovereignty of Nations
- Planet
- Human Rights
Trust
Commission Comparisons
- Coalition of 15 Nations
- Inc/All Designated Nat’l Security Tech Sectors
- Multi-Sector Transformational Expertise
- Practical Defensive & Offensive Strategies
- Public/Private Partnership Led
- Build Network w/ 27 Advisory Councils
- Buy-in & Implementation Focused
- Utilize Proven Tech Statecraft Model
- Unifying Principle: Trust
- 1-Key Metric: Adoption of Trusted
Other Tech Commissions
- US Centric
- Limited to 1-5 Tech Sectors
- Lack of Transformational Leadership Experience
- Constrained to Policy Recommendations
- Government Only or Private Sector Only
- More Inward Looking
- Report Focused
- Proven Models Did Not Exist
- Unifying Principle: ?
- Key Metric: Quality of Report
Objectives
Our experts provide research, training, and policy recommendations on tech sectors that are vital to U.S. foreign policy and national security interests
Tech Sectors
The Commission is focused on technologies that are critical to American and allied national security and foreign policy, and advocates for a global tech agenda that reflects freedom, democracy, and human rights.
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Chairman & Co-Founder, Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy
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Estonian first and only female head of state as well as the youngest president, aged 46 at the time of her election.
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It does not take a Ph.D. in international affairs to understand the common threads that underpin the China-Russia partnership. Both governments are known for lawless behavior, duplicity, bullying, domestic oppression, coercive economic practices, and grave human rights abuses.

Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Indiana Gov. Eric J. Holcomb joined Blinken and Raimondo on a tour of Purdue’s Birck Nanotechnology Center, highlighting the leading-edge research and workforce development efforts at Purdue that can help the United States restore domestic semiconductor manufacturing and competitiveness abroad.

Europe’s energy woes, in the wake of the Russia–Ukraine war, should spur us to take the question seriously

Welcoming the CHIPS Act being signed into law, Keith Krach, former Under Secretary of State and Chairman of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, said, “This is a big day for America – for national security, our global economic security, and our long-term prosperity. The investment will create thousands of jobs across the entire supply chain and create a broad ripple effect of technical training and know-how throughout the tech ecosystem.”

Driven by our mission of “shaping the global future together,” the Atlantic Council is a nonpartisan organization that galvanizes US leadership and engagement in the world, in partnership with allies and partners, to shape solutions to global challenges.
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