Energy, Environment & Climate Updating the State Energy Program to Promote Regional Manufacturing and Economic Revitalization A resilient, secure, & prosperous clean energy economy increasingly demands investments in advanced energy manufacturing and supply chains.
Health & Life Sciences Supercharging Biomedical Science at the National Institutes of Health NSF should rigorously evaluate its research funding mechanisms to foster scientific breakthroughs.
Health & Life Sciences Eliminating Childhood Lead Poisoning Worldwide The United States should adopt a roadmap to help LMICs implement policies needed to achieve global elimination of childhood lead poisoning.
Energy, Environment & Climate Deploy a National Network of Air-Pollution and CO2 Sensors in 300 American Cities by 2030 The U.S. should deploy air-pollution emission sensors in 300 American cities by 2030 to drive critical climate and air-quality decisions.
Education & Workforce Creating a Judicial Innovation Fellowship to Strengthen America’s Court Infrastructure and Improve Access to Justice Congress should create a Judicial Innovation Fellowship that brings experienced technologists into courts to improve access to justice.
Education & Workforce National Security A Digital Military Talent Initiative for Noncitizen Technologists A new Digital Military Talent Initiative could help address the military’s digital-talent gap.
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.
Education & Workforce Supporting Market Accountability, Workplace Equity, and Fair Competition by Reining in Non-Disclosure Agreements Limiting NDA abuse will promote market accountability, workplace equity, and fair competition.
Innovation & Economic Competitiveness Fund Organizations, Not Projects: Diversifying America’s Innovation Ecosystem with a Portfolio of Independent Research Organizations Dominant research-funding paradigms are constraining the outputs of America’s innovation systems.
