Ishan Sharma | Day One Project

Ishan Sharma is an Advisor and Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, a nonpartisan, high-impact, and entrepreneurial nonprofit that has inspired over 10+ executive actions and $2.6B in federal action on key science and technology priorities. Sharma personally contributed to several projects, including designing cluster-based economic development strategies that aim to bring innovation from the coasts to the heartland through the Economic Development Administration’s $1 billion Build Back Better Regional Challenge, leading an initiative on industrial strategy for science and technology alongside the White House’s National Economic Council and National Security Councils, project-managing the ideas of 50+ external experts into actionable policy proposals, and helping found a new early-career science and technology fellowship (endless-frontier.org) to provide individuals similar exposure to high-leverage, strategic, and creative pursuits of impact.

By Ishan Sharma

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Creating the Make it in America Regional Challenge

The Biden Administration should create the Make it in America Regional Challenge (MIARC) to activate demand in underinvested regions with cluster-based techno-economic development efforts.

Health & Life Sciences

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Pandemic Readiness Requires Bold Federal Financing for Vaccines

Getting ahead of the next pandemic is impossible without government financing.

National Security

Technology Policy

Countering China’s Monopolization of African Nations’ Digital Broadcasting Infrastructure

The U.S. should support African civil society by securing an information ecosystem that advances democratic values.

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Science Policy

Piloting and Evaluating NSF Science Lottery Grants: A Roadmap to Improving Research Funding Efficiencies and Proposal Diversity

Our nation’s methods of supporting new ideas should evolve alongside our knowledge base.

National Security

A Strategy to Blend Domestic and Foreign Policy on Responsible Digital Surveillance Reform

The lack of coordination
between state and local agencies and the federal government around surveillance has created a deeply unregulated surveillance-tech environment and a discordant international agenda.