The sustainability and security of Earth’s outer orbit and the future success of launch missions depend on the removal of sixty years’ worth of accumulated space debris.
The FDA and USDA should improve the administration of antibiotics in apiculture and strengthen the regulation of pre- and probiotic supplements marketed to commercial beekeepers.
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.
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.
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.
The United States should adopt a roadmap to help LMICs implement policies needed to achieve global elimination of childhood lead poisoning.
The U.S. should deploy air-pollution emission sensors in 300 American cities by 2030 to drive critical climate and air-quality decisions.
Congress should create a Judicial Innovation Fellowship that brings experienced technologists into courts to improve access to justice.
Our roundtable of climate and procurement experts discussed the underutilized role of the federal government as a strategic buyer to overcome market failures in scaling innovative solutions to climate change. Speakers included: Initial Perspectives The session began with remarks from Thomas Kalil (Schmidt Futures), who provided an introduction into procurement levers, or “demand-pull” mechanisms. The session then […]
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 […]