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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Kickstarting Collaborative, AI-Ready Datasets in the Life Sciences with Government-funded Projects

The research community lacks strategies to incentivize collaboration on high-quality data acquisition and sharing. The government should fund collaborative roadmapping, certification, collection, and sharing of large, high-quality datasets in life science.

01.02.25 | 6 min read
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Education & Workforce
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Policy Memo
Launch the Next Nuclear Corps for a More Flexible Nuclear Regulatory Commission

The potential of new nuclear power plants to meet energy demand, increase energy security, and revitalize local economies depends on new regulatory and operational approaches at the NRC.

01.02.25 | 6 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Ready for the Next Threat: Creating a Commercial Public Health Emergency Payment System

In anticipation of future known and unknown health security threats, including new pandemics, biothreats, and climate-related health emergencies, our answers need to be much faster, cheaper, and less disruptive to other operations.

12.23.24 | 5 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
From Strategy to Impact: Establishing an AI Corps to Accelerate HHS Transformation

To unlock the full potential of artificial intelligence within the Department of Health and Human Services, an AI Corps should be established, embedding specialized AI experts within each of the department’s 10 agencies.

12.23.24 | 10 min read
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Government Capacity
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Policy Memo
Transforming the Carceral Experience: Leveraging Technology for Rehabilitation

Investing in interventions behind the walls is not just a matter of improving conditions for incarcerated individuals—it is a public safety and economic imperative. By reducing recidivism through education and family contact, we can improve reentry outcomes and save billions in taxpayer dollars.

12.20.24 | 7 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Creating a National Exposome Project

The U.S. government should establish a public-private National Exposome Project (NEP) to generate benchmark human exposure levels for the ~80,000 chemicals to which Americans are regularly exposed.

12.20.24 | 7 min read
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Environment
Blog
Four Guiding Principles for Accountability and Transparency in Wildfire Management

The federal government spends billions every year on wildfire suppression and recovery. Despite this, the size and intensity of fires continues to grow, increasing costs to human health, property, and the economy as a whole. 

12.19.24 | 2 min read
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Government Capacity
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Policy Memo
Fixing Impact: How Fixed Prices Can Scale Results-Based Procurement at USAID

To respond and maintain U.S. global leadership, USAID should transition to heavily favor a Fixed-Price model to enhance the United States’ ability to compete globally and deliver impact at scale.

12.19.24 | 11 min read
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Government Capacity
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Policy Memo
Building Regional Cyber Coalitions: Reimagining CISA’s JCDC to Empower Mission-Focused Cyber Professionals Across the Nation

State, local, tribal, and territorial governments along with Critical Infrastructure Owners face escalating cyber threats but struggle with limited cybersecurity staff and complex technology management.

12.19.24 | 8 min read
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Global Risk
Blog
The 2024 DOD China Military Power Report

The Department of Defense has finally released the 2024 version of the China Military Power Report.

12.18.24 | 6 min read
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Emerging Technology
Issue Brief
Public Comment on Executive Branch Agency Handling of CAI containing PII

The federal government is responsible for ensuring the safety and privacy of the processing of personally identifiable information within commercially available information used for the development and deployment of artificial intelligence systems

12.18.24 | 14 min read
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Education & Workforce
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Policy Memo
Establishing a Cyber Workforce Action Plan

As cyber threats grow more complex and sophisticated, the nation’s ability to defend itself depends on developing a robust, adaptable, and highly skilled cybersecurity workforce.

12.18.24 | 15 min read
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