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Electronic circuits transfer more than a trillion dollars across international borders every day.
Improved pharmaceutical and agricultural products extend life expectancies on ev- ery continent. High-precision weapons have changed the meaning of warfare. The Department must be able to take full account of these and other achievements of American and foreign laboratories as it shapes America's foreign policy in the coming decades. Thus, the Department has the opportunity to capitalize on American STH achievements in assuming leadership in a multitude of areas of foreign policy that are driven by technological developments. First and foremost, integration of the nation's STH expertise into the processes for developing and implementing for- eign policy must be carried out on a sustained basis on many fronts.