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Government Capacity
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Building Talent Capacity for Permitting: Insights from Civil Servants

…the hiring process and how long it takes to get someone through the door. At FAS, we know it’s hard. We’ve seen how it works, and we’ve heard stories from…

01.07.25 | 22 min read
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Environment
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Four Guiding Principles for Accountability and Transparency in Wildfire Management

…Scientists is proud to have worked collaboratively with five other organizations to identify four guiding principles federal leaders can follow in order to improve the transparency and accountability of public…

12.19.24 | 2 min read
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Emerging Technology
Public Comment
Public Comment on Executive Branch Agency Handling of CAI containing PII

…to this Request for Information on Executive Branch Agency Handling of Commercially Available Information Containing Personally Identifiable Information. Please contact clangevin@fas.org if you have any questions or need additional information….

12.18.24 | 14 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Slow Aging, Extend Healthy Life: New incentives to lower the late-life disease burden through the discovery, validation, and approval of biomarkers and surrogate endpoints

…avenues for medical advancements that will profoundly improve public health and mitigate the fast-growing, nearly trillion-dollar Medicare spend on late-life conditions. Challenge and Opportunity By 2029, the United States will…

12.09.24 | 15 min read
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Government Capacity
day one project
Policy Memo
Better Hires Faster: Leveraging Competencies for Classifications and Assessments

…Fortunately, federal hiring managers and HR staffing specialists already have many tools at their disposal to accelerate the hiring process and improve quality outcomes – to achieve better hires faster….

12.03.24 | 7 min read
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