Congress and the Biden-Harris Administration should strive to clarify environmental regulatory requirements and standing for litigation under NEPA.
To inform the Administration’s new strategy, we pulled together a curated set of ideas from our extensive portfolio of nonpartisan, actionable ideas in science and technology policy.
The problem of fraudulent trademark registrations at the PTO has become increasingly severe, but it can be contained.
The Biden Administration should explicitly emphasize that open government data is a top Administration priority.
The U.S. should invest in civic technologies that advance next-gen American infrastructure and prioritize individual privacy protections.
The federal government can and must intervene to promote transparency and competition in the broadband market.
Digital driver’s licenses can offer greater protection of personal information, and some states are already skipping the line at the DMV From submitting personal information over email to scheduling telehealth appointments, safe and verifiable forms of personal identification are crucial. While physical driver’s licenses are standard, they can be stolen or forged. To improve security […]
The U.S. should support African civil society by securing an information ecosystem that advances democratic values.
Limited insight into police misconduct makes it difficult to improve policing, but a national registry could help
Research into senescent cells could result in extended human lifespans and significant policy implications Improved housing, sanitation, and healthcare have significantly increased humans’ life expectancy, and biomedical advances have the potential to further extend people’s lives. The life expectancy of a person born in 1860 was only about 39 years; a person born today can […]
To reduce the burden on traditional data centers, improving on DNA data storage could be the key The pace at which data – such as photos, videos, and social media posts – are being generated is ramping up drastically, exceeding the scaling limits of traditional silicon-based data storage technologies, and DNA could be deployed to […]
Establish a Manufacturing USA Institute under NIST with the goal of pursuing advanced packaging for scalable heterogeneous computing.