America 275 · The National Agenda
A national portfolio for America’s next era.
America 275 organizes the search for and development of transformative projects across American industry, infrastructure, energy, technology, and regional development — a visible national pipeline, developed to a common standard.
- Transformative projects targeted
- 275
- Strategic sectors
- 6
- States in scope
- 50
What it is
A structured national framework.
America 275 is a platform: a structured way to identify national priorities, originate projects that serve them, and carry those projects through development to implementation readiness — coordinated so they reinforce one another.
What ties them together is a single institutional standard: across every sector that determines American productive capacity, a project earns its place the same way.
How the portfolio works
A platform, layer by layer.
National priorities at the top; a visible portfolio at the bottom; a common discipline throughout.
- National prioritiesWhat is worth building.
- OriginationFinding the projects that serve them.
- Development standardThe common bar every project clears.
- Stage-gated pipelineTracked progress, gate by gate.
- A visible portfolioOpen to partners, communities, and the public.
Why 275
Scale matched to the need.
A coordinated portfolio
A single project cannot rebuild national capacity; a coordinated portfolio can.
Across sectors and regions
Industry, infrastructure, energy, technology, and regional development — nationwide.
A common standard
Every project is held to the same expectations for public value, feasibility, and readiness.
A pipeline you can see
Projects move through defined stages, tracked and reported.
Common questions
About America 275.
No. It names the ambition of the portfolio — a national pipeline of transformative projects identified, developed, and advanced over time, not a claim of completed work.
Governments, companies, communities, and institutions can nominate industrial, infrastructure, technology, or regional-development opportunities for review.
Applied America is the nonprofit division of CEFA that runs the platform — it identifies national priorities, originates projects, develops them to a common standard, and reports on progress. It convenes the partners a project needs rather than owning or operating the projects itself.
No. It is a platform for finding, developing, and advancing projects; it does not pool or deploy capital itself. Its work is priority-setting, origination, development to standard, and honest reporting — capital decisions rest with the partners suited to each project.
Six strategic sectors tied to American productive capacity — critical minerals and materials, manufacturing and energy, technology and defense, health and agriculture, infrastructure, and regional development. The priorities within them evolve as national needs change.
Every project earns its place the same way — for public value, feasibility, readiness, partnership, and measurable outcomes — even though a mine and a port prove those things differently. The bar is constant; the evidence is sector-specific.
No. It is run by a nonprofit division of CEFA and works with governments, companies, communities, and institutions. Public bodies take part as partners, but the framework itself is independent.
Projects move through defined stages that are tracked and reported, so partners, communities, and the public can see where the pipeline stands. Visibility is a design principle of the platform, not a marketing claim.
America 275 is a long-horizon framework; projects are added and advanced continually as they are nominated, screened, and developed. It measures itself by the discipline of the pipeline rather than a fixed completion date.
Begin with the national priorities to see where the portfolio focuses, then nominate a project or register the capability your organization brings. Every nomination receives a preliminary review.
Have a project for the national portfolio?
Nominate an industrial, infrastructure, technology, or regional-development opportunity.