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Video Indicates that Lida Air Base Might Get Russian “Nuclear Sharing” Mission in Belarus

On 14 April 2023, the Belarusian Ministry of Defence released a short video of a Su-25 pilot explaining his new role in delivering “special [nuclear] munitions” following his training in Russia. The…

04.19.23 | 7 min read
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Emerging Technology
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What the CRS Report on Regional Innovation Ecosystems Gets Right and Misses

At the beginning of April, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a landmark report outlining the scope of federal investments in regional ecosystems, something we have written about at FAS in the…

04.17.23 | 13 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Leveraging Pharmacoeconomics and Advance Market Commitments to Reduce Healthcare Expenditures

Summary By establishing a self-sustaining fund to incentivize pharmaceutical companies to develop new and improved treatment protocols using low-cost, off-patent and unmonopolizable therapies, billions of dollars in cost savings could be…

04.17.23 | 21 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Creating Auditing Tools for AI Equity

The unregulated use of algorithmic decision-making systems (ADS)—systems that crunch large amounts of personal data and derive relationships between data points—has negatively affected millions of Americans. These systems impact equitable…

04.11.23 | 10 min read
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Education & Workforce
day one project
Policy Memo
Supporting Historically Disadvantaged Workers through a National Bargaining in Good Faith Fund

Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) are underrepresented in labor unions. Further, people working in the gig economy, tech supply chain, and other automation-adjacent roles face a huge…

04.11.23 | 9 min read
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