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Congress Extends Small Business Innovation Program for Three Years. Now What?

Congress extended SBIR. Now what?

10.04.22 | 7 min read
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Clean Energy
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Tipping Points for Positive Transformation

A growing body of research suggests that positive tipping points could just as rapidly accelerate transitions to a more sustainable way of life.

09.13.22 | 3 min read
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Environment
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Policy Memo
Masks via Mail: Maintaining Critical COVID-19 Infrastructure for Future Public Health Threats

To protect against future infectious disease outbreaks, the Department of Health and Human Services Coordination Operations and Response Element should develop and maintain the capacity to regularly deliver N95 respirator masks to every home using a mail delivery system.

09.12.22 | 6 min read
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Government Capacity
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What we learned in Mexico City

Moonshots seem impossible—until they’ve hit their target. This was the mantra of our in-person accelerator workshop, hosted with our partners at Unlock Aid in Mexico City. The workshop was just one part of our larger accelerator process where we’re working with innovators to develop moonshots around global development targets. FAS’s largest policy-development convening to date […]

09.12.22 | 3 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Building Back Better: A Billion Dollar Investment in Broadening Economic Opportunity

As Build Back Better Regional Challenge communities get to work, they represent our best hope for greater opportunity across the country.

09.02.22 | 5 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Strengthening Policy by Bringing Evidence to Life

With millions of new scientific papers published every year, acting on research insights presents a formidable challenge. But what if evidence could “live”?

08.22.22 | 13 min read
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Emerging Technology
Article
AI for science: creating a virtuous circle of discovery and innovation

In this interview, Tom Kalil discusses the opportunities for science agencies and the research community to use AI/ML to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and technological advancement. Q.  Why do you think that science agencies and the research community should be paying more attention to the intersection between AI/ML and science? Recently, researchers have […]

08.22.22 | 9 min read
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Clean Energy
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Environmental Data in the Inflation Reduction Act

The hundreds of millions of dollars that the IRA invests in environmental-data collection and analysis will serve as critical scaffolding to efficiently guide federal spending on environmental initiatives in the near future.

08.16.22 | 6 min read
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Government Capacity
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The Day One Project is going international!

We’ll be spending this week in Mexico City with our partners at Unlock Aid, where we’ll be co-hosting the Reimagining the Future of Global Development Moonshot Accelerator. This will be our eighth accelerator cohort, and the very first in-person group. 

08.16.22 | 3 min read
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Education & Workforce
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CHIPS and Science Highlights: Developing a Scientific Workforce of the Future

If we want to keep America at the forefront of scientific discovery, we need to make sure that we are constantly replenishing our pool of scientists with the best and brightest minds.

08.11.22 | 5 min read
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Emerging Technology
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CHIPS and Science Highlights: Regional Innovation

Three new programs, NSF Engines, Tech Hubs and Recompete, plus existing programs like BBBRC and GJC, represent a massive proposed investment in building regional innovation clusters.

08.11.22 | 5 min read
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Emerging Technology
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CHIPS and Science Highlights: Bioeconomy

Congress had a lot more on its agenda than semiconductors when compiling the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. The bill–law as of yesterday–puts forward an expansive framework to advance U.S. innovation broadly, including in areas that feed into a critical sector: the bioeconomy. 

08.10.22 | 6 min read
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