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Executive Summary

Technology for Economic Growth: Checklist of Clinton Administration Key Accomplishments

Putting Technology to Work for America's Future

• Meeting the Challenges: Technology and the Economy
• Technology Development and Commercialization
  • Technology Reinvestment Project
  • Advanced Technology Program
  • Alliances to Tackle Technology Challenges
  • Leveraging Federal Agencies' R&D
  • Increasing Access to Commercially Useful Technology
• Technology Infrastructure
  • National Information Infrastructure
  • Strengthening NIST Laboratory Programs
  • Manufacturing Extension Partnership
  • Technology "Road Maps" and Competitive Benchmarks
  • Access to Foreign Science and Technology
  • National Technology Medal
  • National Quality Award
• People-Oriented Technology Policy
  • Upgrading Training and Skills
  • Office of the American Workplace
  • Partnerships to Promote Worker Training
  • Preparing Tomorrow's Workers
• Leadership in Basic Science, Mathematics, and Engineering
• Environment for Innovation and Private-Sector Investment
  • Small Business Investment
  • Other Initiatives

• Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee
• Opening Up Foreign Markets
• Toward a National Export Strategy Recommendations Now Being Implemented
• Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations Benefits for U.S. Technology Companies
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA Benefits for U.S. Technology Companies)

• Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
  • Committee on Civilian Industrial Technologies
  • Federal Agencies' Efforts
• Manufacturing Extension Partnership
• Manufacturing Competitiveness Initiative
• U.S.-Japan Manufacturing Technology Fellowship Program
• Electronics
  • Dual-Use Technology Strategy
  • Other Agency Actions

• The NII: A High Priority for the Clinton Administration
• Action Plan and Accomplishments
• Private-Sector Investment
  • "Universal Service" Concept
  • Technological Innovation and New Applications
  • Interactive, User-Driven Operation
  • Information Security and Network Reliability
  • Management of the Radio Frequency Spectrum
  • Intellectual Property Rights
  • Coordination with Other Governments
  • Access to Government Information and Improved Government Procurement

• Three Pillars of a 21st-Century Defense Technology Strategy
  • Reform the Current DOD Acquisition Process
  • Focus More R&D within DOD on Dual-Use Products and Processes
  • Reach Out Globally to Allies
• Progress to Date
  • Dual-Use R&D/ARPA
  • Technology Reinvestment Project

• Climate Change Action Plan
• Clean Car Initiative
• Environmental Technologies Initiative and Export Strategy
• Environmental Technologies and NAFTA
• Budget Priorities
• Clean Cities
• Natural Gas Strategic Plan
• Motor Challenge
• Small Business Innovation Research
• Other Initiatives

• Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles
• Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles
• Research and Technology Outreach Seminars
• Intelligent Vehicle/Highway Systems
• Global Positioning System
• Climate Change Action Plan
• Magnetic Levitation
• Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act
• Aeronautics
• High-Speed Research
• Advanced Subsonic Technology

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