Chairman Carr Establishes New Council on National Security

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr established a new Council for National Security within the FCC. The Council will leverage the full range of the FCC’s regulatory, investigatory, and enforcement authorities to promote America’s national security and counter foreign adversaries, particularly the threats posed by the People’s Republic of China and Chinese Communist Party. Chairman Carr also named his National Security Counsel, Adam Chan, as the first Director of the FCC’s Council on National Security. The Council will have a 3-part goal:

1. Reduce the American technology and telecommunications sectors’ trade and supply chain dependencies on foreign adversaries;
2. Mitigate America’s vulnerabilities to cyberattacks, espionage, and surveillance by foreign adversaries; and
3. Ensure the U.S. wins the strategic competition with China over critical technologies, such as 5G and 6G, AI, satellites and space, quantum computing, robotics and autonomous systems, and the Internet of Things