Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue Announces 2025 Trusted Tech Leadership Award Honorees

Atomic Industries, ReElement Technologies, Strider Technologies, and the Government of Sweden
recognized for advancing trusted innovation that strengthens freedom, security, and prosperity

WEST LAFAYETTE, IN & WASHINGTON, DC — The Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue announced today the recipients of its 2025 Trusted Tech Leadership Awards, recognizing companies and countries that demonstrate integrity, courage, and ingenuity in advancing technology that strengthens freedom, security, and global prosperity. 

The distinguished honorees will be recognized at the Institute’s annual Trusted Tech Summit on Monday, November 17, 2025, in Washington, D.C., a high-level convening of U.S. and allied companies and countries to chart a path toward a global economy underpinned by trusted technology.

This year’s awardees include one public sector honoree and, for the first time, three private sector recipients, each representing a critical layer of what the Institute calls the Trusted Technology Stack: from energy and critical materials, to hardware and chips, to data infrastructure, frontier models, and applications. Together, they reflect the spectrum of technologies and democratic values that give America and its allies a decisive edge and form the backbone of global prosperity, security, and freedom.

Atomic Industries – Building America’s Next Industrial Base 

Under CEO Aaron Slodov, Atomic Industries is helping to lead the movement of American reindustrialization, harnessing artificial intelligence to restore manufacturing speed, precision, and competitiveness as a strategic advantage for the free world. Combining technology and manufacturing to create a world where atoms move at the speed of bits, Atomic is reinventing mass production by teaching machines tool and die making – building the AI-powered foundation for the next generation of American industry. By merging artificial intelligence with advanced production, Atomic is redefining how the United States designs, builds, and scales critical technologies, ensuring that the physical backbone of the trusted tech stack is innovative, homegrown, and secure.

ReElement Technologies – Enabling U.S. and Allied Critical Mineral Independence 

Led by CEO Mark C. Jensen, ReElement Technologies Corporation is setting a new standard for trusted innovation in the critical minerals sector. A leading provider of high-performance refining capacity for rare earth and critical defense and battery elements, ReElement’s multi-mineral, multi-feedstock platform technology refines recycled materials from data center and defense applications, rare earth magnets, lithium-ion batteries, concentrated ores and brines, and coal-based byproducts to create a cost-effective, environmentally safe, circular supply chain. Through partnerships across Africa, Korea, and the United States, ReElement is proving that energy and resource security can be achieved through allied collaboration, sustainable innovation, and strategic independence. By pioneering next-generation purification and recovery technologies – developed at Purdue and deployed globally – ReElement is ensuring that the materials powering advanced technologies remain homegrown, resilient, and aligned with democratic values.

Strider Technologies – Transforming Open-Source Data into Strategic Intelligence to Protect Technology and Innovation

Led by CEO Greg Levesque, Strider Technologies is reimagining intelligence by leveraging cutting-edge AI and proprietary methodologies to deliver actionable insights that empower leaders in industry, government, and academia to secure and advance their critical assets, innovation, and supply chain from nation-state risks. Its leadership in advancing strategic intelligence has become essential to rethinking global economic security in the 21st century – from strengthening defenses at the state and local level to forging robust international partnerships, including pioneering work with Japan and other allies. Operating in 15 countries with offices in Salt Lake City, Washington, D.C., London, Tokyo, and Sydney, Strider exemplifies how technology and intelligence, guided by democratic values, can strengthen the free world’s resilience and competitiveness.

Government of Sweden

Sweden, NATO’s newest member, stands as one of the world’s fastest adopters of emerging technologies and a global hub of innovation grounded in freedom and democratic values. With a tech sector more than twice as productive as the EU average and a thriving start-up ecosystem home to several successful unicorns, Sweden is proving that Europe’s greatest export can be trusted innovation. As a nation that combines openness, excellence, and security, Sweden exemplifies how democratic innovation can strengthen collective freedom, security, and prosperity.

“These awardees reflect the best of what it means to lead with trust,” said Keith Krach, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue.   “As we approach America’s 250th birthday, we’re reminded that our nation’s strength has always come from its enduring commitment to freedom. At the Krach Institute, we believe technology must advance that cause. These transformational leaders are proving that when innovation is guided by our core ideals, it becomes a force for greater opportunity and prosperity for all.”

“Trusted innovation begins with leadership,” said Michelle Giuda, CEO of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue. “This year’s honorees are rebuilding the backbone of freedom for the 21st century, proving that America and its allies can re-earn global leadership by out-innovating, out-partnering, and out-building the competition.”

The 2025 recipients join an exceptional group of past Trusted Tech Leadership Award honorees, including Palantir CEO Dr. Alex Karp, Google President and CIO Ruth Porat, Africell CEO Ziad Dalloul, former President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen, former President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid, and Dan Goldin, NASA’s longest-serving Administrator, among other public and private sector leaders. 

For more information on the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, please visit https://techdiplomacy.org. 

About the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue

The Krach Institute is the world’s preeminent trusted technology accelerator. As the leader in the new category of Tech Diplomacy, the Institute integrates technology expertise, Silicon Valley strategies and foreign policy tools to build the Global Trusted Tech Network of governments, companies, organizations and individuals to accelerate the innovation and adoption of trusted technology and ensure technology advances freedom.

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