Trump, Biden, Obama admin officials gather to discuss U.S. security at Texas summit

Officials from the Trump, Biden, Obama and Bush administrations, defense and intelligence experts, lawmakers, scientists, and investors are huddling in Texas this week to plot American primacy amid a global realignment.Why it matters: Michael Kratsios, Trump's chief science-and-technology policy adviser, in an interview said U.S. national and economic security is contingent on "technological dominance." He delivered his first public address at the Endless Frontiers summit Monday — its only on-the-record segment."This isn't some movie where we sit back and watch the future happen," Kratsios told Axios. "It's something that we have to actively be participants in."Trump in a letter last month called on Kratsios to "blaze a trail to the next frontiers of science." It mentioned artificial intelligence, quantum and nuclear tech.Zoom out: The 200-plus attendees of Endless Frontiers (invite only) will leave with a game plan addressing:A tech-savvy U.S. arsenal.Reindustrialization, secure supply chains and critical infrastructure.Government competitiveness and mobilization of national talent.What we're hearing: The get-together comes at a precarious time, both at home and abroad."We're facing geopolitical and technological shifts that are going to determine the place of the country in the future, especially vis-a-vis China," Rush Doshi, an Asia expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, told Axios. "We thought that this decade was decisive. That's a bipartisan judgement, by the way.""There are parts of America's ecosystem that just never talk to each other," Jordan Blashek, a managing partner at America's Frontier Fund, told Axios. "As a result, we are operating in silos at a moment when we need a unified kind of American response, an American strategy."Between the lines: Note that this is happening in Texas. Not New York. Not California.Follow the money: Endless Frontiers planning began about one year ago. It's cohosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, University of Texas at Austin, Rice University, Texas A&M and Baylor University.Sponsors include 8VC, America's Frontier Fund and Overmatch Ventures, financiers of the defense-tech boom.What's next: Another initiative, the Endless Frontiers Institute, is being stood up to maintain momentum.The summit is also not one and done. In fact, there's a yearslong commitment, according to the organizers.

Officials from the Trump, Biden, Obama and Bush administrations, defense and intelligence experts, lawmakers, scientists, and investors are huddling in Texas this week to plot American primacy amid a global realignment.Why it matters: Michael Kratsios, Trump's chief science-and-technology policy adviser, in an interview said U.S.

national and economic security is contingent on "technological dominance." He delivered his first public address at the Endless Frontiers summit Monday — its only on-the-record segment."This isn't some movie where we sit back and watch the future happen," Kratsios told Axios.

"It's something that we have to actively be participants in."Trump in a letter last month called on Kratsios to "blaze a trail to the next frontiers of science." It mentioned artificial intelligence, quantum and nuclear tech.

Zoom out: The 200-plus attendees of Endless Frontiers (invite only) will leave with a game plan addressing:A tech-savvy U.S. arsenal.

Reindustrialization, secure supply chains and critical infrastructure.Government competitiveness and mobilization of national talent.What we're hearing: The get-together comes at a precarious time, both at home and abroad.

"We're facing geopolitical and technological shifts that are going to determine the place of the country in the future, especially vis-a-vis China," Rush Doshi, an Asia expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, told Axios. "We thought that this decade was decisive. That's a bipartisan judgement, by the way.

""There are parts of America's ecosystem that just never talk to each other," Jordan Blashek, a managing partner at America's Frontier Fund, told Axios. "As a result, we are operating in silos at a moment when we need a unified kind of American response, an American strategy."Between the lines: Note that this is happening in Texas.

Not New York. Not California.Follow the money: Endless Frontiers planning began about one year ago.

It's cohosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, University of Texas at Austin, Rice University, Texas A&M and Baylor University.Sponsors include 8VC, America's Frontier Fund and Overmatch Ventures, financiers of the defense-tech boom.What's next: Another initiative, the Endless Frontiers Institute, is being stood up to maintain momentum.

The summit is also not one and done. In fact, there's a yearslong commitment, according to the organizers..