The Biden-Harris Administration can combat the impacts of redlining through a new place-based program called “Putting Redlines in the Green”.
The Biden Administration should create the Make it in America Regional Challenge (MIARC) to activate demand in underinvested regions with cluster-based techno-economic development efforts.
This is the ideal time to expand U.S. climate strategy into an “all of the above” solution that includes carbon capture and storage as a core component.
Climate action and U.S. manufacturing competitiveness are deeply intertwined and require a coordinated strategy.
A resilient, secure, & prosperous clean energy economy increasingly demands investments in advanced energy manufacturing and supply chains.
Congress should create a Judicial Innovation Fellowship that brings experienced technologists into courts to improve access to justice.
2022 Bioautomation Challenge: Investing in Automating Protein EngineeringThomas Kalil, Chief Innovation Officer of Schmidt Futures, interviews biomedical engineer Erika DeBenedictis Schmidt Futures is supporting an initiative – the 2022 Bioautomation Challenge – to accelerate the adoption of automation by leading researchers in protein engineering. The Federation of American Scientists will act as the fiscal sponsor […]
On September 16th, 2021, the Day One Project convened a closed-door listening session for interagency government leaders to hear from co-founders and supply-chain leaders of 10 startups in critical industries — bioeconomy, cleantech, semiconductor — about challenges and opportunities to scale their operations and improve resilience in the United States. The panel was moderated by Elisabeth Reynolds, Special Assistant […]
Our roundtable of senior leadership at the White House National Economic Council and U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services as well as a diversity of viewpoints across political ideologies from Breakthrough Energy, American Compass, MIT’s The Engine, and Employ America discussed competing with China on advanced manufacturing sectors (bioeconomic, semiconductor, quantum, etc.), supply chain resilience, […]
Our nation’s methods of supporting new ideas should evolve alongside our knowledge base.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, the Federation of American Scientists joined 35 organizations and individuals from the immigration and startup communities in an open letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas calling on him to make procedural changes to International Entrepreneur Parole. “Over half of the billion-dollar startups launched in the United States were founded […]
2022 Bioautomation Challenge: Investing in Automating Protein EngineeringThomas Kalil, Chief Innovation Officer of Schmidt Futures, interviews biomedical engineer Erika DeBenedictis Schmidt Futures is supporting an initiative – the 2022 Bioautomation Challenge – to accelerate the adoption of automation by leading researchers in protein engineering. The Federation of American Scientists will act as the fiscal sponsor […]