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- Subject: CLINTON: Press Release on Technology Announcements 2.22.93
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- Date: 22 Feb 1993 21:43:21 -0500
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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- THE WHITE HOUSE
- OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY
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- _____________________________________________________________________
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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY,
- FEBRUARY 22, 1993
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- PRESIDENT OUTLINES COMPREHENSIVE NEW TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE:
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- Technology to Create Jobs, Protect the Environment, Improve
- Government
- Bold Changes Proposed to Redirect, Focus U.S. Efforts
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- SAN JOSE, CA -- Offering bold and dramatic changes to
- harness technology to drive economic growth and job
- creation, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al
- Gore today (2/22) unveiled a comprehensive new technology
- initiative to move America forward to a stronger economy,
- a cleaner environment, more competitive businesses, more
- effective government, better educational programs and
- technological leadership in critical fields.
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- "In order to revitalize our economy, it is time for a
- dramatically new approach that recognizes the strength and
- potential of America's scientific and technological
- resources to change and improve the quality of our lives,"
- President Clinton said.
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- The new initiative: Technology for America's
- Economic Growth, A New Direction to Build Economic
- Strength offers a comprehensive blueprint to focus
- American technology around three central goals:
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- -- Long-term economic growth that creates jobs and
- protects the environment;
- -- Making government more efficient and more responsive;
- -- World leadership in basic science, mathematics, and
- engineering.
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- "We face new challenges, from our competitors around
- the world and from the people we serve here at home, that
- demand new solutions and creative thinking. Technology
- offers new opportunities for jobs, for a cleaner
- environment, for better schools, for high-quality health
- care and for scores of other advances. We must move to
- seize these opportunities," said Vice President Gore, who
- the President has asked to play a leadership role in
- implementing these new initiatives.
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- President Clinton and Vice President Gore returned to
- California's Silicon Valley to unveil the initiative,
- where the President last year detailed his commitment to a
- new direction in U.S. technology policy, a commitment
- which was endorsed by leaders throughout the technology
- community.
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- Technology for America's Economic Growth recognizes
- that new investments in technology will help the private
- sector create high-wage, high-skill jobs. It offers
- ground-breaking proposals to:
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- Develop a national network of manufacturing extension centers
- to help small and medium-sized businesses gain access to
- technology;
- Invest in applied R & D in fields such as advanced
- manufacturing, aerospace, biotechnology, and advanced
- materials;
- Increase partnerships between industry and the national
- laboratories;
- Develop a partnership with the American auto industry to
- enable the development of a "clean car," creating jobs and
- protecting the environment; and
- Expand the Commerce Department's Advanced Technology Program
- to provide matching grants for industry-led R & D consortia.
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- A major priority of the package will be developing a
- National Information Infrastructure and the "information
- superhighways" created by legislation introduced and
- steered to passage by Vice President Gore when he served
- in the Senate. Technology for America's Economic Growth
- includes:
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- Support for the High-Performance Computing and Communications
- Initiative that is developing new technologies for our most
- powerful computers, supercomputers that are able to rapidly
- process enormous quantities of information and for a national,
- high-speed network ("information superhighways") to make this
- high-performance computing more accessible.
- Developing new applications for high-performance computing and
- networking in health care, lifelong learning, and manufacturing.
- Creating pilot projects to demonstrate these technologies in
- schools and other nonprofit entities.
- A task force of the National Economic Council which will work
- with the Congress and the private sector to develop policies
- needed to accelerate the deployment of a National Information
- Infrastructure.
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- America's technology policy also will be used to help
- meet other
- important national goals:
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- The federal government will use technology to cut its costs,
- improve energy efficiency, and improve the quality and
- timeliness of service.
- The government will work with industry to develop technologies
- (software, computer and communications equipment) that increase
- the productivity of learning in our schools, our homes, and our
- work places.
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- The plan will improve the environment for private
- sector investment and innovation in a variety of ways:
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- Making the Research and Experimentation tax credit permanent.
- Reducing capital gains for long-term investments in small
- businesses.
- Reforming our antitrust laws to permit joint production
- ventures.
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- Technology for America's Economic Growth recognizes
- as well that our policy goals require a continued
- commitment to U.S. leadership in basic research. The
- initiative includes substantial increases in funding for
- the National Science Foundation.
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- And, Technology for America's Economic Growth
- improves the management of U.S. technology policy with:
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- High-level leadership and coordination by the Vice President,
- the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the National
- Economic Council.
- Developing a true partnership between the federal government
- and industry, labor, academia, and the states.
- Regular evaluation of programs to determine whether they should
- remain part of the national investment in technology.
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- COPIES OF TECHNOLOGY FOR AMERICA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH ARE
- AVAILABLE.
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