WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), with financial support from Schmidt Futures, announced that six organ procurement organizations (OPOs) have joined the FAS Organ Procurement Organization Innovation Cohort, committing to use data science and transparency to accelerate improved patient outcomes and to inform ongoing, data-driven policy development. This follows the finalization […]
Biology is becoming a defining technology of the modern era, and is expected to contribute nearly 1.1. million jobs to the US by 2030.
The Administration should address pressing IT talent shortages while empowering Americans to participate in the IT economy.
A robust STEM ecosystem is imperative to our country’s national security, international leadership, and economic recovery from COVID-19.
The Biden-Harris Administration should address this gap by establishing a national public record of wildfire-smoke health impact.
Those persons who have authorized access to classified information that they believe is improperly classified are “encouraged and expected” to challenge the classification of that information (Executive Order 13526, section 1.8). Sometimes they do. And every once in a while, their challenges lead to declassification of the information. A new report from the Government Accountability […]
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 world will be “increasingly out of balance and contested at every level” over the next twenty years due to the pressures of demographic, environmental, economic and technological change, a new forecast from the National Intelligence Council called Global Trends 2040 said last week. But among the mostly grim possible futures that can be plausibly anticipated […]
A properly trained soldier can distinguish a vegetarian from a meat-eater based on their smell, a new Army publication says, since “different diets produce different human odors.” He or she can to determine the age, gender and even the mental state of a target by studying their footprints. Not simply a warrior, the ideal soldier is […]
The Administration should create the Local Innovation Unit to catalyze decentralized experiments focused on our most urgent challenges.
The first public release of New START aggregate numbers since the United States and Russia in February extended the agreement for five years shows the treaty continues to limit the two nuclear powers strategic offensive nuclear forces. Continued adherence to the New START limits is one of the few positive signs in the otherwise frosty […]