Introduction Activity 0.1. Description of United States Security Interests. This section includes a description of United States national and economic security interests pertaining to the deployment of 5th and future generations wireless communications systems and infrastructure. As stated in the National Strategy to Secure 5G, Fifth Generation wireless technology, or 5G, will be a primary driver of our Nation’s prosperity and security in the 21st century. 5G will provide orders of magnitude improvements in multiple areas, including speed, connectivity, and reduced latency. As a result, this new technology will provide consumers, businesses, and governments with remarkably fast network connections that will enable tens of billions of new devices to harness the power of the Internet, transforming the way we live, work, learn, and communicate. This technology will spur innovation and enable the development of new markets, products, services, and economic growth around the world. These new connections will empower a vast array of new and enhanced critical services, from autonomous vehicles and tele-medicine, to helping communities enhance the management of local resources such as traffic signals and water supplies, to automated manufacturing and advances to traditional critical infrastructure, such as smart grid electricity distribution. Consumer devices from vehicles to medical implants will become more capable via 5G connections to new edge computing and cloud services, algorithms, and applications. 5G deployment will bring a new generation of the knowledge economy; increasing productivity, growing new businesses, and spurring innovation. Given 5G’s scope touching virtually everything in our daily lives the stakes for safeguarding these vital networks and architecture could not be higher. The security of 5G information and communications technology and services (ICTS) infrastructure, and the data and information that transits and is stored on it, is a key United States security interest. A trusted, secure supply chain is also paramount. We cannot ensure the security of 5G networks if untrusted equipment or software is allowed to control any part of the network, including the radio access network (RAN). It is a key interest of the United States to address unacceptable risks that come from ICTS products designed, developed, manufactured or supplied by companies operating under the control or influence of a foreign government whose national security interests are adverse to the United States. Lead Entity: National Economic Council and National Security Council Activity 0.2. Department and agency roles and responsibilities. This section provides a description of the roles and responsibilities of the appropriate executive branch agencies and departments and agencies mechanisms to coordinate implementation of the Strategy. President Trump has set American leadership in 5G as one of the major priorities of this Administration. As he previously noted, “[s]ecure 5G networks will absolutely be a vital link to America’s prosperity and national security in the 21st century… [w]e cannot allow any other country to out-compete the United States in this powerful industry of the future.” The Administration’s multifaceted efforts on 5G are led by the Assistant to the President and Director of the National Economic Council (NEC), in close coordination with the Assistant to the President and 6