The US Air Force wants to renew and expand the withdrawal of public land for the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), where it conducts flight testing, classified research and development projects, and weapons tests. A Defense Department proposal to Congress would increase the amount of land currently withdrawn from public use by more than 10 […]
In 2018 the Census Bureau discovered that results of the 2010 census could be processed and matched with external sources in such a way as to reveal confidential personal information, in violation of the law. “This had not been thought to be feasible owing to the large amount of data and computation involved,” a new report from […]
The threat to public safety from unmanned aerial systems (drones) is not just foreseeable — it already exists in the form of numerous near-collisions with manned aircraft, a new report from the Congressional Research Service observes. “Between 2016 and 2019, airline pilots reported, on average, more than 100 drone sightings per month to FAA, and […]
A proposal to address privacy concerns surrounding the growing use of artificial intelligence.
A proposal to institute meaningful protections against government surveillance in the United States.
Steps the federal government can take to end the organ transplant wait list.
A blueprint to restore the foundation for U.S. competitiveness by embarking on a new growth trajectory for federal research spending.
A proposed federal initiative would expand the emerging field of civic research as “R&D for state and local government.”
Establishing a National Manufacturing Foundation to restore critical industrial commons, ensuring what is invented here can be made here.
A proposal for a National Energy Storage Initiative to advance energy-storage technologies, boost domestic manufacturing.
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 […]
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.