New Frontier

American  

noun

1. the principles and policies of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President John F. Kennedy.

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New Frontier Cultural  

1. A slogan used by President John F. Kennedy to describe his goals and policies. Kennedy maintained that, like the Americans of the frontier in the nineteenth century, Americans of the twentieth century had to rise to new challenges, such as achieving equality of opportunity for all.

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Etymology

Origin of New Frontier

As a political catchphrase, apparently first used by Henry Wallace in a book of the same title (1934)

Example Sentences

It is one of several firms competing to develop a powerful quantum computer - which is seen as an exciting new frontier in the future of computing.

From BBC

In 1983, he founded New Frontier Publications for the Salvation Army, serving as editor until 2017.

From Los Angeles Times

Garman said the new “frontier agents,” capable of performing tasks with broader goals for longer periods of time, are the product of what he called “an enormous amount” of software engineering and infrastructure data, a combination of different models and a strong underlying memory architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal

As AI technology trends toward autonomous vehicles and robots, Marcus and others believe the new frontier will be “world models,” or AI with a mental simulation of the real world.

From MarketWatch

"Ultimately, we hope this work opens a new frontier toward constructing ecosystems in extraterrestrial environments such as the Moon and Mars," says Fujita.

From Science Daily