Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

28. Federal Communications Commission · Notable

Launch a Clean Standards Initiative against CCP standards influence

Attempted

852 28. Federal Communications Commission

“Launch a Clean Standards Initiative. … It is vital that the United States meet this threat with a comprehensive clean standards initiative.”

What has happened

  1. Attempted

    The presidential memorandum Winning the 6G Race makes it United States policy to lead 6G development "including steadfastly advancing American interests in the international standards bodies that will play a crucial role in 6G development", and section 5 directs the Secretary of State — coordinating with the FCC Chairman, NTIA and the White House economic and science advisers — to build "a coalition of industry and foreign partners that supports the United States' positions on Agenda Item 1.7 at the International Telecommunication Union's World Radiocommunication Conference-27". That is the Clean Networks method applied to standard-setting, which is what the Quote asks for, but at one agenda item of one conference: it is not a comprehensive clean standards initiative, it is not named as one, and it does not name the CCP. Nothing has changed in any standards body yet.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • Negative search recorded in docs/research/ch-28.md under the Chapter 28 cluster search. In short: "clean standards" and "Clean Network" each return 0 Federal Register documents since 2025-01-20 across all types; "standards initiative" returns 0; and "international standards bodies" returns three unrelated banking documents. The Corpus’s presidential-actions.ndjson has no title containing “standards” other than the 2025-05-09 water-pressure rescission.
  • The State Department’s Clean Network pages (the Mandate’s endnote 25) are archived at 2017-2021.state.gov, i.e. the program ended with the first Trump Administration and has not been revived under that name. No successor initiative was found on state.gov, commerce.gov or nist.gov.
  • Winning the 6G Race is a National Security Presidential Memorandum and was not published in the Federal Register, which is why a Federal Register full-text search alone would have produced a false negative on this item. It was found through NTIA’s 2026-05-07 Spectrum.gov announcement, which names it.
Action
create
Object
Clean Standards Initiative
ID
2205