A robust STEM ecosystem is imperative to our country’s national security, international leadership, and economic recovery from COVID-19.
Just a small group of nationally-ranked universities are awarded the majority of federal research funding. In 2018, a study found that out of more than 600 colleges and universities that received federal funding for science and engineering research, about 22 percent received over 90 percent of the funds. The equity and accessibility of these funds […]
By supporting bottom-up, place-based investment and building a network of new ideas, the Administration can foster American dynamism.
The Administration should create the Local Innovation Unit to catalyze decentralized experiments focused on our most urgent challenges.
Artificial intelligence places strenuous demands on current computing hardware, but the integration of semiconductors, superconductors, and optical hardware will create revolutionary new tools for AI.
The law’s critics are right to question Big Tech’s power, but weakening Section 230 would not address companies’ flaws.
The Federal Government should annually invest $100 million for 5 years to launch an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Labor (ARPA-L).
Sustained investment in the industries of the future is crucial to national security, American healthcare, and a green economy.
The Administration should establish the Venture Science Doctorate (VSD) to train graduates to combine research and entrepreneurship.
The pandemic accelerated an already rapid ongoing shift to a tech-driven world. We must similarly accelerate investments in IT.
The lack of coordination
between state and local agencies and the federal government around surveillance has created a deeply unregulated surveillance-tech environment and a discordant international agenda.
At a time when democratic rule of law and human rights have weakened globally, emerging digital surveillance technologies have made the authoritarian model more accessible, stable, and competitive than ever before.