Approach
Metro Manila, Philippines
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In 2024-26, FFC is working in two areas:
Supporting new coalitions in policy or practice to overcome collective action problems and inject new dynamism into 1) US and allied advanced manufacturing, and 2) key development objectives (principally around improving access to electric power, with a primary focus on Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia).
Structuring investments into the technologic foundations of a US and allied manufacturing renaissance.
Our wider task
is to help build a new platform for the rapid, integrated innovation, manufacture, & dissemination of technologies and products key to the defense of democracies, and to global development, through 2040.
This platform should support a 21st Century Arsenal of Democracy, in such a way that:
1) science, technology, and innovation are used in ways that strengthen democratic societies and advance sustainable development;
2) democratic states with open societies and a commitment to human rights maintain or regain leadership in science, technology, innovation, manufacturing, and the provision of critical infrastructure;
3) anti-human technologies — technologies that erode human rights and dignity — are not loosed on the world, carelessly, or in a spirt of competition among nations;
4) democratic societies generate and retain in perpetuity the capacity to act forcefully and independently in favor of the ends above; and
5) by mid-century, the world will have largely realized the post-War vision embodied in The Four Freedoms.
To build a strong platform,
FFC’s approach blends strengths
of the for-profit, non-profit, & public sectors.
Kalinga Province, Luzon, Philippines
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