
Betting on America: Winning the Global Tech Race
Hosted by Navin Girishankar · Center for Strategic and International Studies
4.6from 7 ratings
- 42
- Episodes
- 40
- Transcribed
- 7
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Betting on America: Winning the Global Tech Race
Betting on America: Winning the Global Tech Race explores how new and emerging partnerships between government and business are shaping the future of U.S. industrialization and the country’s prospects for winning the global tech race. Betting on America will dive into strategies and investments that government and business are pursuing together – sharing risks and generating returns – as they bet on the innovation, commercialization, and scaling of critical and emerging technologies across the country. These include climate technologies, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, quantum, bio technologies, and more. The podcast will feature in-depth discussions with policymakers, experts, and industry leaders on the most complex policy questions of the day. Hosted by Navin Girishankar, President, CSIS Economic Security & Technology Department.
- Publisher
- Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Category
- government · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 10 Feb 2025
- Latest episode
- 23 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
40 of 42 episodes have a transcript.

23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is Maritime Electrification the Future of American Shipbuilding? Featuring Ryan Cook, Co-Founder & CTO of Arc

2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Standards and Statecraft: Featuring Laurie E. Locascio, Ph.D. NAE, President and CEO of the American National Standards Institute

2 Oct 2026
Reflections on UNGA 81
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Is Maritime Electrification the Future of American Shipbuilding? Featuring Ryan Cook, Co-Founder & CTO of Arc
Published 23 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Um, so it's at least on the recreational side, but then to keep moving, you know, it's always been our ambition to move into commercial and then defense and, Once we felt like the consumer business was starting to work, we started looking at what do you do first in the commercial space? And I'd say we were kind of blown away at how quickly we were able to move in that market. I think it's just a testament to the business case we put together. We were able to leverage all the proof point from our recreational brand and move quickly into the commercial space. So what we've publicly announced is eight fully electric tugboats being delivered to Curtin Maritime, primarily operating in the port of Long Beach, but also the port of Los Angeles. […]
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- Ryan Cook
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- Enoh T Ebong
- Hadeil Ali
- Anne Neuberger
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