Technology

Critical Technology holds technology as national capacity under one corollary of the framework's rule: a technology is not a capability, the capability is the capacity to discover, make, deploy and control it, and every capability in the domain is read across those four layers at the indicator level, research strength, frontier production, adoption and diffusion, and supply-chain position and leverage, in that order. Platform and device classes are asset classes and register at the indicator layer. The seams: physical plant, fabrication facilities, laboratories, data and computing centres, launch complexes, reactors and production works, belongs to Strategic Infrastructure, with the process technology and know-how held here; operational employment, cyber and electromagnetic operations, missile and counter-uncrewed defence, the military use of autonomy and space, belongs to National Security, with the technology base held here; the people, the research workforce, digital and AI skills and doctoral training, belong to Human Capital, whose Knowledge Production holds the aggregate research enterprise while this domain reads position within named technology families, the same evidence under two lenses without duplication; commercialisation, industrial scale-up and trade in technology goods belong to the economic domains, with the deploy layer here reading diffusion rather than revenue; and export controls, investment screening and research-security machinery belong to governance, as instruments, with the leverage they exercise recorded here at the control layer. Excluded by design: policy instruments themselves, which are levers on capability rather than capability, and intent, since the domain records dual-use capacity as capacity, with employment classified where it occurs.