Inside AI Policy

November 19, 2025

CFR task force recommends economic security center at Commerce to win on AI

By Mariam Baksh / November 14, 2025

A Council on Foreign Relations group led by senior officials from the last two administrations, and the current head of Lockheed Martin, in a new report calls for creating an economic security center within the Department of Commerce as one way to stay ahead of China on artificial intelligence.

“We should establish an economic security center at the Department of Commerce to strengthen government coordination, upgrade technical expertise and deepen partnership with the private sector,” Gina Raimondo, former President Biden’s...


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