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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Creating an AI Testbed for Government

The U.S. should establish a testbed for government-procured artificial intelligence (AI) models used to provide services to Americans.

01.19.22 | 1 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Improving Graduate-Student Mentorship by Investing in Traineeship Grants

The federal government should build on the success of the NIH’s training-grant program to support STEMM graduate students & U.S. R&D.

01.19.22 | 1 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Creating a Public System of National Laboratory Schools

The U.S. should establish a system of National Laboratory Schools in parallel to its existing system of FFRDCs.

01.19.22 | 32 min read
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Emerging Technology
Blog
Surveillance Technology & the Global Decline in Democracy

As President Biden’s Summit of Democracy highlighted, it’s a dark time for democracy worldwide. Since 2020, the number of countries headed towards authoritarianism has outnumbered those headed towards democratic freedom, while the number of “backsliding democracies” have doubled in the last decade. The United States and its allies have been responsible for the lionshare of this past decade’s democratic downturn, while […]

12.22.21 | 4 min read
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Blog
High-skilled Immigration Policy: FAS’s Current and Future Contributions

Since the creation of this country, the American scientific enterprise has been built by talented immigrants. FAS has worked to strengthen the U.S. immigration system to ensure that experts in all scientific fields, as well as entrepreneurs with innovative ideas are able to build lives in the United States. Over the past two years, FAS […]

12.22.21 | 3 min read
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Blog
Beyond the Endless Frontier

The American hallmark has always been its ingenuity, from the creation of the Internet to the rise of Silicon Valley. But for the last few decades, ingenuity has been on the decline: not because of a lack of genius but because of a failure of the marketplace to bring forward those new ideas in scientific knowledge, entrepreneurship, […]

12.22.21 | 3 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Improving Outcomes for Incarcerated People by Reducing Unjust Communication Costs

It is critical that services such as video calling and email be available to people in prisons at a “just and reasonable” cost.

12.09.21 | 2 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Bringing Opportunities to Incarcerated Persons and Prison-Tech Startups

The White House should expand military-civilian partnerships in trauma care to achieve a national goal of eliminating preventable deaths.

11.23.21 | 10 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Technical Talent Strategies to Build Capacity, Accelerate Priorities, and Drive Change

This is a historic opportunity, driven by critical need, to bolster and reinvigorate the federal talent pipeline.

10.25.21 | 1 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Improving Environmental Outcomes from Infrastructure by Addressing Permitting Delays

Congress and the Biden-Harris Administration should strive to clarify environmental regulatory requirements and standing for litigation under NEPA.

10.08.21 | 1 min read
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Emerging Technology
Report
Industrial Policy Memo

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.

09.30.21 | 1 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
A Strategy for Countering Fraudulent Trademark Registrations at the Patent and Trademark Office

The problem of fraudulent trademark registrations at the PTO has become increasingly severe, but it can be contained.

09.14.21 | 1 min read
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