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ALI Task Force Findings to Improve Education R&D

The education R&D ecosystem must be a learning-oriented network committed to the principles of innovation that the system itself strives to promote across best practices in education and learning.

05.21.24 | 3 min read
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Education & Workforce
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Thinking Big To Solve Chronic Absenteeism

Across the country in small towns and large cities, rural communities and the suburbs, millions of young people are missing school at astounding rates.

05.17.24 | 4 min read
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Emerging Technology
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The Importance of Standards for the U.S. Bioeconomy & National Security: A Conversation with Congressman Jake Auchincloss

We sat down with Congressman Jake Auchincloss to get a better understanding of how Congress and the Select Committee on the CCP view the need for standards for the bioeconomy.

05.16.24 | 6 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Improving Public Health by Advancing the Medicolegal Death Investigation Profession

Medicolegal death investigations agencies are generally underresourced, with insufficient infrastructure for data-sharing and computerized record management.

05.15.24 | 19 min read
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Environment
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Fixing federal permitting requires the right (digital) tools for the job. We built an inventory of them.

We built this inventory to enhance our collective understanding of how that software is used in the federal permitting process—and to open lines of dialogue for cross-agency and cross-sector learning.

05.14.24 | 6 min read
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Clean Energy
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Building a Firm Foundation for the DOE Foundation: It All Starts with a Solid Board

As ‘Friends of FESI’ we want to see this new foundation set up from day one to successfully fulfill the promise of its large impact. 

05.09.24 | 3 min read
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Clean Energy
Press release
The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) Applauds the Newly Announced Board Selected to Lead the Foundation for Energy Security and Innovation (FESI)

“FAS enthusiastically celebrates this FESI milestone because, as one of the country’s oldest science and technology-focused public interest organizations, we recognize the scale of the energy transition challenge and the urgency to broker new collaborations and models to move new energy technology from lab to market,” says Dan Correa, CEO of FAS.

05.09.24 | 3 min read
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Emerging Technology
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The DOE’s Proactive FY25 Budget Is Another Workforce Win On the Way to Staffing the Energy Transition

DOE has spent considerable time in the last few years focused on how to strengthen the Department’s workforce and deliver on its mission. The FY25 budget request looks to continue those investments.

05.07.24 | 3 min read
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Global Risk
Press release
America’s Nuclear Weapons Arsenal 2024: Annual Overview Released by the Federation of American Scientists

The total number of U.S. nuclear warheads are now estimated to include 1,770 deployed warheads, 1,938 reserved for operational forces. An additional 1,336 retired warheads are awaiting dismantlement, for a total inventory of 5,044 warheads.

05.07.24 | 3 min read
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Education & Workforce
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How the NEED Act Would Ensure CHIPS Doesn’t Crumble

CHIPS is poised to ramp up demand for STEM graduates, but the nation’s education system is unprepared to produce them.

05.06.24 | 3 min read
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Clean Energy
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DOE’s FY25 Budget Request Remains Committed to the U.S. Transition to Clean Energy

The Administration has continued to push for further clean energy investments, but faces a difficult fiscal environment in Congress – which has meant shortfalls for many priority areas like funding for CHIPS and Science.

05.03.24 | 6 min read
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Education & Workforce
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President Looks to Education Innovation in the FY25 Budget Request

An analysis of the President’s FY25 budget proposal by the Alliance for Learning Innovation found a lot to like.

05.02.24 | 3 min read
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