Foreign Investment & National Security
CFIUS efficiency becomes an economic-security competitiveness issue
CSIS’s analysis of Treasury’s Known Investor Program frames investment screening as both a national-security gate and a bottleneck for allied capital.
BY GEOPOLITICS DESK · MAY 21, 2026 · 1 MIN READ
CSIS’s analysis of Treasury’s Known Investor Program frames investment screening as both a national-security gate and a bottleneck for allied capital. If the pilot can pre-clear lower-risk repeat investors without weakening scrutiny of sensitive technologies, CFIUS reform may become a deal-timing and industrial-policy issue rather than a purely defensive review process.