The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published the Implementation Roadmap for the U.S. Government National Standards Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technology (USG NSSCET). Released in May 2023, the USG NSSCET outlines U.S. government goals to advance U.S. competitiveness, protect the integrity of standards-developing ecosystems, and assure the long-term success of the U.S. innovation ecosystem, with a focus on critical and emerging technology (CET).
View the USG NSSCET Implementation Roadmap and related White House fact sheet.
The Implementation Roadmap was published following a White House Standards Summit on July 23 that brought together government and private-sector leaders in standardization, including Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST director Laurie E. Locascio; ANSI senior vice president of government relations and public policy Mary Saunders; and participants representing a range of federal agencies, industry, and technology sectors.
The roadmap highlights the public-private partnership that supports the private-sector-led standardization system in the United States. According to the fact sheet, “[t]he USG NSSCET complements the United States Standards Strategy (USSS) published by the ANSI and supports, complements, and further communicates U.S. Government priorities for CET standards development. Through SDOs, the U.S. private sector leads standardization activities globally to respond to market demand, with substantial contributions from the U.S. Government, academia, industry, and civil society groups. Industry associations, consortia, and other private sector groups work together within this system to develop standards to solve specific challenges and respond to national priorities.”
“This plan is a call to action,” said Dr. Locascio. “It is time for all of us—the U.S. government, our partners and allies, the private sector, academia, professional societies, and civil society organizations—to work together to sustain our proven, voluntary, consensus driven, private-sector led standards system. In short, the release of the implementation roadmap is the start of our efforts, not the end.”
“The fact that our U.S. system is open, market-driven, and private-sector-led is critical to achieving the widely shared policy goals of expanded U.S. leadership and innovation on the global stage,” said Saunders. “ANSI supports U.S. government actions to enhance standards coordination across the federal government—at both the technical and policy levels—and to provide strong and sustained funding for CET R&D. Enhanced educational efforts across the government will also contribute to a stronger, more informed public-private partnership and a robust standardization system. We also strongly support the U.S. government enhancing pre-standards and standards communication and coordination with the private sector, and welcome government experts’ direct engagement in standards activities as stakeholders.”
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