I believe that the first thing is getting America as a nation to consider the issue to be incredibly urgent.
That's a rather hard sell, because frankly, it ain't. America still leads the world in damn near every field. For a nation of a mere 300 million people or so, the number of new inventions, scientific discoveries, and bleeding-edge technology companies being generated by the US is way out of whack with the rest of the world. There's no point in trying to sell your solutions with some kind of false urgency, people will see through it.
That's a rather hard sell, because frankly, it ain't. America still leads the world in damn near every field. For a nation of a mere 300 million people or so, the number of new inventions, scientific discoveries, and bleeding-edge technology companies being generated by the US is way out of whack with the rest of the world. There's no point in trying to sell your solutions with some kind of false urgency, people will see through it.