The Federal Commission for Communications (FCC) said on Thursday that she was creating a new national security council at the agency. The FCC announcement does not talk in detail about what the group will do, but the list of its wider goals is focused on competition with China, including AI and other technologies.
The FCC statement, on the advice of national security, says that on its agenda out of three parts is included:
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“Reduce the dependencies of trade and the supply chains of American technologies and telecommunications.
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“Softer America's vulnerability to cyber attacks, espionage and observation of foreign opponents”
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“Make sure that the United States won strategic competition with China for critical technologies such as 5G and 6G, AI, satellites and space, quantum computing, robotics and autonomous systems, as well as the Internet of things”
Although foreign opponents are mentioned in the statement several times, it only calls China specifically.
The Council will include representatives of the eight bureaus and offices in the FCC, an agreement that the agency states that it will contribute to the cooperation of the Meazhgistry and the exchange of information. Adam Chan, who is the FCC lawyer as the director of the National Security Council.
“Today, the country is faced with a constant and constant threat from foreign opponents, especially the CCP,” the FCC chairman Carr wrote in the press release of the agency. “These bad actors always study ways to violate our networks, devices and technological ecosystems. FCCs remains vigilant and defenders to these threats, Americans and American companies remains. Since these threats now reduce a number of sectors that regulate the FCC, ”it is important that national FCC security efforts extract resources from various FCC organizations.
In the chairman of the FCC, the chairman of Carra was an aggressive brief stay of the agency, aggressive, controversial and comply with the goals of President Donald Trump is not surprising, given the Carr wrote The head of the 2025 project about the agency. His moves in the first (not yet) two months of the administration included investigation MediaIN COMCAST research over its DEI practice and the search for public opinion, by what rules should “Delete, remove, remove.”