This is an almost cookie cutter list of every buzzword around.

Take this look in this: it is written by foremost industry "experts" with 6 digit salaries the US government claims to employ.

If the best experts they have can't come with a better insight, guess the expertise level the rest of their workforce.

And it's so vague and broad too.

It's laughable that "Data analytics technology -> Visualization" (which, on the face of it, could include the dashboard I built to show which clients have been billed properly this month) appears on the same list as "Advanced Materials -> Adaptive camouflage".

Personally I’d chalk the buzzwordiness up to upper management choosing the wrong people to talk with.

There are plenty of great technical people working in the national lab system, but it’s not clear that whoever put together this list even tried to get their input. For example, I’m a researcher working at NIST in one of the affected areas, and I haven’t seen any internal communication about this. Looking into whether we can respond to this in an official capacity...

They just forgot ICOs, self-driving cars and human passenger-capable drones.

That's literally what the link says which isn't paywalled or anything, I don't know what compelled you to copypaste a list of 60 lines in here, taking up half the vertical space of the comments section.