About

The Emerging Technology Consortium recognizes that America needs every community to participate so that America can continue to lead the world.  The fourth industrial revolution creates new opportunities, but only if the country makes the proper investment in its people. We are third in the world today, producing 800k STEM graduates annually; the challenge is that only half are U.S. citizens.  Our mission is to influence policy and legislation to make proper investments.  The result is a comprehensive plan that locates industries in every community as a catalyst for economic participation, provides resources to train every American with the appropriate skills, and ensures ownership of those emerging industries by the entire population.  America’s economic leadership is predicated on leveraging the whole American citizenry.

Our Mission

The Emerging Technology Consortium (ETC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to using technology to create opportunities in all urban communities. The ETC advocates for all communities to participate in and own next-generation industries. It also recommends that local governments lead public-private partnerships that will result in globally competitive commercial businesses located in all communities, run by members of their respective communities. The Consortium recommends that the local innovative companies in the community will be the catalyst for new jobs and training. Innovation can transform urban centers and cities.

Our Accomplishments

The Emerging Technology Consortium’s accomplishments include:

• Publishing Technology Incubator Study for the District of Columbia, Economic Partnership;
• Sponsored the Emerging Technology Opportunity Development Act for the District of Columbia Government;
• Authored and created the HBCU Plan, Toyota North America.
• First Round Awardee, Minority Business Development Agency, Broad Agency Announcement, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation for the HBCU Path to Sustainability.  The concept created HBCU/Minority Business Enterprise partnerships to build the contracting capacity of the schools
• Partnered with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund to establish the HBCU NDAA Advisory Board, comprised of predominantly HBCU graduates from academia and industry
• Advisor to Congressional Black Caucus and HBCU Caucus for defense issues that increased HBCU/MI Appropriation in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) from $20M to $100M annually.