Striving for a safer world since 1945.

FAS envisions a world where cutting-edge science, technology, ideas and talent are deployed to solve the biggest challenges of our time. We embed science, technology, innovation, and experience into government and public discourse in order to build a healthy, safe, prosperous and equitable society.

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Government Capacity

Policy Memo

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Why Credit Access Makes or Breaks Clean Tech Adoption and What Policy Makers Can Do About It

To ensure an energy transition that brings broad based economic development, participation, and direct benefits to communities, we need federal policy that helps shape markets. Unfortunately, there is a large gap in understanding of how to leverage federal policy making to support access to capital and credit.

03.04.26 | 21 min read

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Emerging Technology

Blog

What Happens When Unicorns Exist, But Don’t Exit: How the Reverse-Acquihires Trend Threatens the Future of Innovation

By structuring licensing-and-talent deals that replicate mergers while avoiding antitrust scrutiny, dominant technology firms are reshaping AI labor markets, venture financing, and the future of U.S. innovation.

03.30.26 | 5 min read

Environment

day one project

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2026 Is Year of the Female Farmer. We Spoke to Five Who Are Also Technologists.

For International Year of the Woman Farmer and International Women’s Month, we spoke to five women farmers in America about planting the next generation.

03.27.26 | 6 min read

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Gil on the Hill: You can’t spell funding without “fun”

It’s a busy time and you have things to do. Here are three things worth tracking in science policy as Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) wraps and we head into FY27.

03.26.26 | 3 min read

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Science & Technology Funding Uncertainty Impacts Regular People, Too

We’re asking the U.S. government to release holds on Congressionally-appropriated funding for scientific research, education, and critical activities at the earliest possible time.

03.24.26 | 3 min read

issues

Emerging Technology

Rapidly emerging technologies have societal benefits and risks that have not been fully realized, but the United States does not have the robust R&D strategy or funding needed to lead on innovation, development, and commercialization.

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Environment

Shared prosperity depends on a stable climate and healthy environment.

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Global Risk

Humanity must proactively develop and pursue sound policies to protect against global catastrophe, including through scientific and political cooperation.

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Clean Energy

We work to support more efficient commercialization of energy decarbonization technologies, innovative research, and more effective deployment of smart energy policy.

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State & Local Innovation

Taking good ideas from the lab to local governments through intentional, regular and impact-driven policy alignment, by putting science in cities and enabling transformative partnerships between cities and universities.

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Government Capacity

The federal government has a long history of creating and deploying innovative science and technology solutions – but institutional complexity and bureaucratic bottlenecks too often stifle its ability to solve problems.

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Changing Policy
from a Noun to a Verb.

We connect people with ideas to training in policy entrepreneurship, and give them access to the tools, mindsets, and networks that can shape ideas into reality through our Day One platform.

Accelerators

Memos

Ideation campaigns

Idea challenges

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Talent Hub

FAS Fellowships provide opportunities for impact across the science and technology policy community.

Fiscal Sponsorship

The FAS Fiscal Sponsorship Program seeks to support burgeoning entrepreneurs in science and technology policy.