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Successful Pooled Hiring Starts With Diving the Deep End

Get it right, and pooled hiring becomes a model for how the federal government decides what to do together and what to do apart. That’s a bigger prize than faster hiring. It’s a more functional government.

05.07.26 | 17 min read
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Gil on the Hill: More Budget, More Problems 

No one will be surprised if we end up with a continuing resolution to push our shutdown deadline out past the midterms, so the real question is what else will they get done this summer?

04.30.26 | 3 min read
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Public Participation IS the Ingenuity We Need

Rebuilding public participation starts with something simple — treating the public not as a problem to manage, but as a source of ingenuity government cannot function without.

04.29.26 | 33 min read
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Policy Memo
Strengthening the Federal Cycle of Learning and Adaptation by Closing the Loops

If the government wants a system of learning and adaptation that improves results in real time, it has to treat translation, utilization, and adaptation as core functions of governance rather than as afterthoughts.

04.27.26 | 10 min read
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Why Interagency Policy Coordination Efforts Frequently Fail (And How To Fix Them)

Coordination among federal science agencies is essential to ensure government-wide alignment on R&D investment priorities. However, the federal R&D enterprise suffers from egregious siloization.  

04.24.26 | 17 min read
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Four Innovations Driving Climate Progress in State Government

Cities and states are best positioned to design policies to accelerate clean energy, innovation, and economic development because they can design approaches that work in different social, political, and economic contexts. 

04.22.26 | 18 min read
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Policy Memo
Outcome-Based Contracting Reorients Government IT Acquisition Around Public Value and Mission Results

Outcome-Based Contracting reframes procurement around the staged achievement of measurable mission outcomes rather than the delivery of predefined technical artifacts.

04.21.26 | 16 min read
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Sacred Cows: What Did We Stop Questioning in Digital Government Delivery, but Should Now?

Let’s see what rules we can rewrite and beliefs we can reset: a few digital service sacred cows are long overdue to be put out to pasture.

04.10.26 | 8 min read
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A People-centered, Power-conscious Regulatory Democracy Balancing Distributive Justice and Delivery Efficacy

If properly implemented, a comprehensive reform program to accomplish regulatory democracy that is people-centered and power-conscious could be essential for addressing complex policy changes such as the climate challenge.

04.08.26 | 50 min read
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Buzzwords like ‘Abundance’ and ‘Affordability’ are out. Learning policy lessons from the global community is in.

Rather than get caught up in the buzzword flavor of the month, the policymaking ecosystem should study what’s actually working.

04.02.26 | 9 min read
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Policy Memo
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Solving the Clean Energy Infrastructure Finance Rubik’s Cube

The question is not whether the capital exists (it does!), nor whether energy solutions are available (they are!), but whether we can align energy finance quickly enough to channel the right types of capital where and when it’s needed most.

03.12.26 | 53 min read
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Why Credit Access Makes or Breaks Clean Tech Adoption and What Policy Makers Can Do About It

To ensure an energy transition that brings broad based economic development, participation, and direct benefits to communities, we need federal policy that helps shape markets. Unfortunately, there is a large gap in understanding of how to leverage federal policy making to support access to capital and credit.

03.04.26 | 21 min read
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