Resources – In-Q-Tel

Winter 2021

The National Microelectronics Challenge

Growing U.S. concerns about national microelectronics competitiveness and supply chain security have prompted proposals for government action. This policy brief explores IQT’s view that innovation is the key to meeting both competitiveness and security challenges. The nation should address impediments to commercial success in the specific microelectronics technologies that matter most for U.S. security and competitiveness.

Fall 2020

Data Privacy Tech Primer

IQT helps organizations find the best technologies to protect the information with which they are entrusted. But citizens and policymakers lack such an interlocutor, even as they are increasingly asked to share their personal data with organizations. This tech primer aims to introduce data privacy technologies to the non-expert.

Fall 2020

IQT Insights: Open RAN Initiatives

The Radio Access Network (RAN) is part of a mobile telecommunication system that comprises cell towers that broadcast and receive radio signals, and its core network provides communications services that also function as the gateway to the internet. This paper explores how opening up the RAN could disrupt the telecommunications equipment market and create new opportunities for the U.S.

Winter 2017