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Environment
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Policy Memo
Addressing the Organ Donor Crisis

Steps the federal government can take to end the organ transplant wait list.

04.26.20 | 1 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Ambitious, Achievable, and Sustainable: A Blueprint for Reclaiming American Research Leadership

A blueprint to restore the foundation for U.S. competitiveness by embarking on a new growth trajectory for federal research spending.

04.25.20 | 1 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
A Civic Research Initiative to Transform State and Local Government

A proposed federal initiative would expand the emerging field of civic research as “R&D for state and local government.”

04.24.20 | 1 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Establishing a National Manufacturing Foundation

Establishing a National Manufacturing Foundation to restore critical industrial commons, ensuring what is invented here can be made here.

04.24.20 | 1 min read
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Energy
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Policy Memo
National Energy Storage Initiative

A proposal for a National Energy Storage Initiative to advance energy-storage technologies, boost domestic manufacturing.

04.24.20 | 13 min read
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FAS
Blog
COVID-19 Highlights Need for Public Intelligence

Hobbled by secrecy and timidity, the U.S. intelligence community has been conspicuously absent from efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the most serious national and global security challenge of our time. The silence of intelligence today represents a departure from the straightforward approach of then-Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats who offered the clearest public […]

04.23.20 | 3 min read
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Education & Workforce
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Policy Memo
Making Computer Science Education Universal for All Students

A new National Computer Science Initiative can bring CS education to all students across the United States.

04.23.20 | 1 min read
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FAS
Blog
The Military Role in Combating COVID-19

There is a bewildering amount of official guidance on the role of the military in circumstances such as the current pandemic. But the practical impact of that guidance, whatever it may be, is unclear. Like the proverbial war plan that cannot survive first contact with the enemy, Pentagon doctrine on infectious disease seems to have been […]

04.23.20 | 2 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Closing Critical Gaps from Lab to Market

Forging a more effective commercialization pipeline to enhance U.S. long-term economic competitiveness and innovation leadership.

04.23.20 | 1 min read
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Environment
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Policy Memo
Creating the Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA)

The federal government can directly address the massive market failures at the center of our healthcare enterprise by establishing a new Health Advanced Research Projects Agency.

04.19.20 | 13 min read
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Global Risk
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Policy Memo
Combating Digital Disinformation: Resisting Foreign Influence Operations through Federal Policy

A two-part plan for federal action to thwart political disinformation efforts and preserve the sanctity of the American political process.

04.11.20 | 1 min read
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Global Risk
Blog
A Decade After Signing, New START Treaty Is Working

On this day, ten years ago, U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev signed the New START treaty during a ceremony in Prague. The treaty capped the number of strategic missiles and heavy bombers the two countries could possess to 800, with no more than 700 launchers and 1,550 warheads deployed. The treaty […]

04.08.20 | 5 min read
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