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Clean Energy
day one project
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
day one project
Policy Memo
Making Computer Science Education Universal for All Students

The next administration should establish a national initiative to accelerate the implementation of rigorous computer science education for preschool through 12th grade students in the United States.

04.23.20 | 16 min read
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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
day one project
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
day one project
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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Blog
SkyGuardian Drone Takes Flight Over Southwest US

General Atomics’ SkyGuardian drone, a non-weaponized variant of the military’s MQ-9 Reaper, last week completed a test flight through civil airspace from Palmdale, California to Yuma, Arizona, the company announced. The April 3 flight demonstration, sponsored by NASA, marks a further step in the planned integration of drones into the National Airspace System. General Atomics said […]

04.08.20 | 4 min read
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Blog
The Urgency of Military History

The task of the military historian differs from that of the academic historian because military history has an operational dimension. It is supposed to help inform current military operations with the lessons and the perspectives of the past. “The historian must always bear in mind that the whole purpose of the history office is to […]

04.08.20 | 2 min read
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Environment
day one project
Policy Memo
Mass-Digitizing Biodiversity Collections of the United States

A coordinated effort to mass digitize the physical specimens in U.S. biodiversity collections.

04.06.20 | 1 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Modernizing Radio Spectrum Management

Rethinking spectrum policy through a set of targeted reforms can maximize productive use of the radio spectrum.

04.05.20 | 1 min read
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