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Science Policy
Issue Brief
Moving the Nation: The Role of Federal Policy in Promoting Physical Activity

…on physical activity, partnering with other government agencies and departments as well as other organizations, including the Active People, Healthy Nation program and funding initiatives such as the State Physical…

10.19.23 | 7 min read
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Science Policy
day one project
Policy Memo
BioNETWORK: The Internet of Distributed Biomanufacturing

…broad, do not provide actionable steps for the private sector to respond to, and do not provide the proper organization and goals that would drive outcomes of real manufacturing, resulting…

10.10.23 | 10 min read
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Technology & Innovation
Blog
AI in Action: Recommendations for AI Policy in Health, Education, and Labor

…the U.S. can lead in advancing ethical, high-impact applications of AI. Education The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) co-leads the Alliance for Learning Innovation (ALI), a coalition of cross-sector organizations…

10.05.23 | 7 min read
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Science Policy
Blog
Risk and Reward in Peer Review

…piloting this approach on a series of proposals in the life sciences that we have collected for Focused Research Organizations, a new type of non-profit research organization designed to tackle…

10.02.23 | 6 min read
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FAS
Press release
FAS Launches ‘FRO-casting’ Tournament on Metaculus to Solicit Ideas for Focused Research Organizations (FROs)

…envisioned as standalone, time-limited non-profit organizations organized like a startup to solve well-defined technical challenges that are neither profitable nor publishable. Their goal is to produce vital public goods: processes,…

10.02.23 | 2 min read
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