APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED After decades of reductions in the number and salience of nuclear weapons, they are once again at the center of international security. All nine nuclear-armed states are updating their arsenals and several are expanding them. But despite new military technology and new risks, the concepts underpinning nuclear deterrence have changed little […]
GILD envisions a future where innovation is embedded into the culture of government and public policy to radically improve services and build public trust.
In a world where new models of knowledge discovery are emerging, it is critical to ensure that we as a nation are using federal scientific funding as productively as possible to maximize its societal impact.
The Federation of American Scientists is advancing production, use, and uptake of scientific evidence to improve policy outcomes across critical societal challenges. A New Evidence Era for Federal Government Evidence-based policy is the process of using high-quality information [evidence] to inform government decisions [policy]. 2018’s Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (Evidence Act) launched a new era in […]
We must not only make investments in emerging technologies, but also experiment with new ways of solving problems.
To inform the Administration’s new strategy, we pulled together a curated set of ideas from our extensive portfolio of nonpartisan, actionable ideas in science and technology policy.
The Organs Initiative focuses on data-driven solutions to the organ shortage that cost 33 Americans their lives every day.
From 1991-2021 the FAS Project on Government Secrecy worked to reduce the scope of government secrecy and to promote public access to government information by seeking reform of national security classification and declassification policies. The Project published previously undisclosed or hard-to-find government documents of public policy interest as well as related reporting and analysis in the Secrecy News […]