4. Department of Defense · Minor
Cut DOD critical technology areas from 14 to a smaller number
Printed page 99 4. Department of Defense
“Reduce the number of critical technology areas from 14 to a more manageable number to concentrate effort and resources on those that bear directly on great-power competition.”
What has happened
- Not started
No reduction of the fourteen DOD critical technology areas on any allowlisted source. Searched: the Federal Register full-text API for "critical technology areas" across all document types since 2025-01-20 (0 results); the FY2026 NDAA and the FY2026 defense appropriations act for "critical technology area" (0 in each); the Corpus of executive orders and presidential actions on defense research and acquisition. EO 14265 restructures acquisition without touching the technology-area list.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Negative search, twice over. The Department’s fourteen critical technology areas are set by the Under Secretary for Research and Engineering in documents the Department does not publish through the Federal Register, and every Department of War page that might carry a revised list refuses to open for us.
One negative search covered this item and its cluster of neighboring asks.
- Action
- eliminate
- Object
- DOD critical technology areas
- ID
- 154