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Policy Memo
Elevate and Strengthen the Presidential Management Fellows Program

The challenges facing our country require a robust pipeline of talented and representative rising leaders across federal agencies. The Presidential Management Fellows program has historically been a leading source of such talent. 

12.12.24 | 7 min read
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Government Capacity
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Policy Memo
Unlocking The Future Of Work by Updating Federal Job Classifications

By acting now, the Administration can create clear career pathways for workers and better equip federal agencies with critical workforce insights to optimize national investments.

12.10.24 | 4 min read
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Policy Memo
Reform Government Operations for Significant Savings and Improved Services

Adopting and transforming to a government-wide shared service business model can save money, improve customer experience, improved decision-making power, and more.

12.06.24 | 5 min read
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Policy Memo
Onboarding Critical Talent in Days: Establishing a Federal STEM Talent Pool

The federal government can leverage existing authorities and hiring mechanisms to respond to staffing needs for emerging policies, technologies, and crises in near-real time.

12.06.24 | 6 min read
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Policy Memo
Better Hires Faster: Leveraging Competencies for Classifications and Assessments

A federal agency takes over 100 days on average to hire a new employee — with significantly longer time frames for some positions — compared to 36 days in the private sector.

12.03.24 | 7 min read
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Policy Memo
Collaborative Intelligence: Harnessing Crowd Forecasting for National Security

Crowd forecasting methods offer a systematic approach to quantifying the U.S. intelligence community’s uncertainty about the future and predicting the impact of interventions, allowing decision-makers to strategize effectively and allocate resources by outlining risks and tradeoffs in a legible format.

11.27.24 | 5 min read
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Policy Memo
Policy Experiment Stations to Accelerate State and Local Government Innovation

Despite an emerging awareness of the importance of state and local government innovation capacity, there is a shortage of plausible strategies to build that capacity.

11.26.24 | 9 min read
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Blog
Getting Federal Hiring Right from the Start

Most federal agencies consider the start of the hiring process to be the development of the job posting, but the process really begins well before the job is posted and the official clock starts.

11.21.24 | 10 min read
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Policy Memo
Democratizing Hiring: A Public Jobs Board for A Fairer, More Transparent Political Appointee Hiring Process

An open jobs board for political appointee positions is necessary to building a stronger and more diverse appointee workforce, and for improving government transparency.

11.07.24 | 6 min read
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Policy Memo
Building a Comprehensive NEPA Database to Facilitate Innovation

Analyzing NEPA outcomes isn’t just an academic exercise; it’s an essential step for eliminating the biggest hurdles of the environmental review process.

11.04.24 | 5 min read
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Policy Memo
Using Home Energy Rebates to Support Market Transformation

Without market-shaping interventions, federal and state subsidies for energy-efficient products like heat pumps often lead to higher prices, leaving the overall market worse off when rebates end.

11.01.24 | 9 min read
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Policy Memo
Driving Product Model Development with the Technology Modernization Fund

Changing how the program educates, funds, and assesses agencies will build internal capacity and deliver continuous improvement.

10.31.24 | 5 min read
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