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Government Capacity
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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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Government Capacity
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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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Environment
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Policy Memo
Establishing a National Water Technology Pipeline

A National Water Technology Pipeline would mobilize American entrepreneurs and manufacturers to lead on research and development of the next generation of solutions in water treatment, monitoring, and data management.

12.06.24 | 8 min read
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Environment
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Policy Memo
The U.S. Needs to Build More Houses in Future Receiving Cities

The federal government should designate “Receiving Cities” to which it will allocate funds and tax incentives aimed at producing and preserving affordable housing, in anticipation of population inflows.

12.05.24 | 13 min read
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Clean Energy
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Policy Memo
Prioritizing Rural Ranching Operations in BLM Solar Arrays

BLM’s right-of-way application materials should require applicants to address how solar arrays will be planned, designed, and operated to support traditional ranching practices and surrounding rural economies.

12.05.24 | 5 min read
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Global Risk
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Policy Memo
Saving Billions on the US Nuclear Deterrent

Life-extending the existing Minuteman III missiles is the best way to field an ICBM force without sacrificing funding for other priorities.

12.04.24 | 7 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
How to Prompt New Cross-Agency and Cross-Sector Collaboration to Advance Learning Agendas

To improve program outcomes, federal evaluation officers should conduct “unmet desire surveys” to advance federal learning agendas and built agency buy-in.

12.04.24 | 9 min read
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Government Capacity
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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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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
The Medicare Advance Healthcare Directive Enrollment (MAHDE) Initiative: Supporting Advance Care Planning for Older Medicare Beneficiaries

At least 40% of Medicare beneficiaries do not have a documented AHCD. In the absence of one, medical professionals may perform major and costly interventions unknowingly against a patient’s wishes. 

12.02.24 | 14 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Driving Equitable Healthcare Innovations through an AI for Medicaid (AIM) Initiative

AI has transformative potential in the public health space, but innovation driven primarily by the private sector today may be exacerbating existing disparities by training models.

12.02.24 | 6 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Strategies to Accelerate and Expand Access to the U.S. Innovation Economy

With targeted policy interventions, we can efficiently and effectively support the U.S. innovation economy through the translation of breakthrough scientific research from the lab to the market.

11.27.24 | 16 min read
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Government Capacity
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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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