The National Agenda
The priorities that shape the portfolio.
America 275 concentrates where American productive capacity is thinnest: four strategic industries, and the two enabling conditions every industrial project waits on. The priorities decide what Applied America looks for and what it agrees to develop.
- Strategic industries
- 4
- Enabling conditions
- 2
- Priority areas in all
- 6
What the priorities serve
Every priority serves one aim.
Each area orbits the same objective: American productive capacity. Nothing enters the portfolio that does not advance it.
Priority areas
Where the portfolio focuses.
Four industries and two enabling conditions. Each links to the page that sets out the reasoning behind it — if a priority has no page, it is not on this list.
On the priority areas
Priorities steer the search; they set no quota.
From CEFA’s research and from national and regional needs across industry, infrastructure, energy, technology, and workforce. They evolve as conditions change.
They guide which projects Applied America looks for and agrees to develop; a nomination that advances a priority is a stronger fit than one that does not. They set a direction, not a quota of projects.
Each is closely tied to American productive capacity and resilience — the ability to make, move, power, and defend. The focus favors capabilities where coordinated projects can most strengthen the whole.
Separate, and deliberately so. Infrastructure is one of the two enabling conditions rather than an industry, which is why the portfolio counts six priority areas and not four. A minerals or manufacturing project usually cannot move until power, water, and logistics are solved, so the thing it waits on is treated as a priority of its own.
Regional development is where the industry priorities land in real places — corridors, clusters, and the communities that hold the sites. A single project can advance an industry priority and a regional one at the same time.
Yes. They are drawn from CEFA’s research and from national and regional needs, and they shift as conditions, technologies, and supply chains change. The framework is meant to track the need, not freeze it.
No. Many strong projects sit at the intersection, such as an energy project serving advanced manufacturing. A nomination is categorized by its primary purpose and can be associated with more than one priority.
Any credible opportunity can be nominated, but fit with a national priority is one of the things screening weighs. Projects outside the current priorities may still be recorded and revisited as the priorities evolve.
Directly: four of them are the strategic-industry pages under Where We Work, infrastructure is the infrastructure-corridors page, and regional development is the states-and-regions page. The reasoning lives there; the priorities are the portfolio’s working version of that same map.
Priorities are maintained through CEFA’s research process, informed by national and regional needs and by what partners bring forward. Changes are deliberate rather than a reaction to any single project.
Working in a priority area?
Nominate a project that advances one of them, or read the sector page that explains why it is on the list.