Dominant research-funding paradigms are constraining the outputs of America’s innovation systems.
S. 1605 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 SEC. 1004. Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Reform. (a) Establishment.– (1) In general.–There is hereby established an independent commission in the legislative branch to […]
The Day One Project recently conducted a white-boarding session with 20 PPBE experts. The product of this seminar is the following list of broad questions about the financial barriers to the Department of Defense’s efforts to modernize the US military. These questions, and the research necessary to answer them, can serve as a roadmap for […]
The decades-old dictum of “innovate here, produce there” has stymied our nation’s technological progress and prowess. As Japan, Germany, Korea, Taiwan, and China have realized the benefits of “manufacturing-led” innovation systems, our nation, without innovative methods to produce newly developed technology, has failed to reap the benefits from our investments in R&D. Our roundtable of senior […]
The U.S. should invest in AMCs and prizes for vaccine development and deployment as part of the American Pandemic Preparedness Plan.
Our lack of creativity in defining the scholarly landscape is limiting our nation’s capacity for innovation.
Now is the time for the NIA to drive science-first funding for the field of aging.
Without reform, exclusionary zoning will continue to damage equity and inhibit growth and opportunity in many parts of America.
The U.S. should establish a testbed for government-procured artificial intelligence (AI) models used to provide services to Americans.
The federal government should build on the success of the NIH’s training-grant program to support STEMM graduate students & U.S. R&D.
The U.S. should establish a system of National Laboratory Schools in parallel to its existing system of FFRDCs.
It is critical that services such as video calling and email be available to people in prisons at a “just and reasonable” cost.