In his first term, President Trump recognized that emerging technologies—including artificial intelligence, quantum information science, nuclear technologies, space exploration, telecommunications, biotechnology, advanced transportation, and advanced manufacturing—were critical to American competitiveness, and would become the “Industries of the Future.” Now, in his second term, those industries of tomorrow have become the industries of today. The Trump Administration is focused on ensuring that the United States leads in all of them, by aligning policy, regulatory frameworks, and funding authorities to accelerate mission-driven research and development, strengthen domestic supply chains, spur robust private-sector investment, and champion American companies in global markets.
A healthy manufacturing base is essential to American economic strength and national security. For too long, offshoring has hollowed out American industry, eliminated factories, displaced our workers, and created dangerous dependencies on foreign suppliers. The Trump Administration is reversing this trend through a whole-of-government approach to reshore production, using tariffs to level the playing field, directing a coordinated workforce and apprenticeship strategy, streamlining permitting to accelerate project timelines, and securing historic investment commitments to build factories on American soil and create American jobs. These actions build on President Trump’s first-term leadership, including Executive Order 13806 to strengthen the manufacturing and defense industrial base, early tariff actions to shift global supply chains back to the United States, and the American AI Initiative that directed efforts to leverage AI for manufacturing.