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The project was launched in March 2023 with 44 technologies. In our 2023 report we made 23 recommendations, all of which remain relevant for countries today. Grouped into four themes, those recommendations call for partners and allies to 1) boost investment, drive commercialisation and build talent pipelines; 2) enhance global partnerships; 3) supercharge intelligence efforts; and 4) consider moonshots (big ideas), including long-term funding via sovereign wealth funds for research, development and technology innovation. Without bigger and more ambitious changes to the status quo, the trajectory laid out in the Critical Technology Tracker will continue to be consolidated.

A further 7 AUKUS relevant technologies were added in June 2023, and 13 additional technologies were added in the September 2023 'Sensors and Biotechnologies' update

A major update was released in August 2024, where we added a long-term trends visualisations to the website, tracking research performance over two decades (going back to 2003) across each of the tracked technologies.

In our most recent update, launched December 2025, we've added an additional 10 new emerging technologies (bringing the total to 74) and updated the Tracker to include 2024 and preliminary 2025 date.

  1. ASPI’s Critical Technology Tracker: 2025 updates and 10 new technologies (published 1 December 2025)
  2. ASPI’s two-decade Critical Technology Tracker: The rewards of long-term research investment (published 28 August 2024)
  3. ASPI’s critical tech tracker updates: biotechnology and the tight race towards the top (published 22 September 2023)
  4. ASPI’s critical tech tracker updates: China’s lead in advanced sensors is overwhelming (published 22 September 2023)
  5. AUKUS: three partners, two pillars, one problem (published 6 June 2023)
  6. ASPI’s Critical Technology Tracker: The global race for future power (published 1 March 2023)