Technology, Leadership & Strategy Initiative

The Technology Leadership and Strategy Initiative (TLSI) brings together chief technology officers from industry, academia and government in an effort to capture American innovation. TLSI creates a collaborative environment that leverages public and private technology investments that accelerates the pace of development; researches what criteria influence global investment decisions in terms of research, talent and infrastructure; and captures the wealth creation resulting from R&D investments.

Innovation has taken center stage in government and industry efforts worldwide to compete and prosper. American leaders understand increasingly that cost and quality alone do not determine economic success. The lynchpin is innovation - the ability to develop new ideas and deploy them in the real world where they create economic and societal value. Innovation creates high-margin business, sustains high-wage jobs and drives productivity. It is the key to solving many of the most pressing challenges and addressing many of the greatest opportunities.

Increased innovation, productivity, and national competitiveness can be achieved through transformational use of advanced computing.   A recommended new initiative – the Advanced Computing for Energy (ACE) program – proposes to leverage the advanced computing resources of the Department of Energy’s national laboratories to work in partnership with industry to accelerate energy-related product design, development, prototyping, test and evaluation, and deployment in the commercial marketplace.

Read about how the potential creation of ACE could materially enhance U.S. global competitiveness in the energy sector.