Science Policy | Day One Project

How to Replicate the Success of Operation Warp Speed

Operation Warp Speed’s unique success is thanks to strong public-private partnerships, effective coordination, and structured leadership. Here’s how to replicate the OWS model for future success.

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Science Policy

Project BOoST: A Biomanufacturing Test Facility Network for Bioprocess Optimization, Scaling, and Training

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the essential importance of biomanufacturing capabilities—extending to the geopolitical level—as well as the fragility of many supply chains and processes.

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Science Policy

Technology Policy

Advancing the U.S. Bioindustrial Production Sector

The U.S. government should create a Bio for America Program Office (BAPO) at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) to house a suite of initiatives that would lead to the creation of more well-paying U.S.-based biomanufacturing jobs and more.

Education & Workforce

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Science Policy

Accelerating Bioindustry Through Research, Innovation, and Translation

Streamlined funding of open and cross-disciplinary research, prize and challenge mechanisms, and market shaping through innovative procurement have all proven highly effective in the face of market failures and applied technology gaps like those seen in our bioindustry.

Science Policy

How Unmet Desire Surveys Can Advance Learning Agendas and Strengthen Evidence-Based Policymaking

To improve program outcomes, federal evaluation officers should conduct “unmet desire surveys” to advance federal learning agendas and built agency buy-in.

Science Policy

Public Value Evidence for Public Value Outcomes: Integrating Public Values into Federal Policymaking

The federal government should broaden institutional capacity to collect and integrate evidence on public values into policy and decision making.

Science Policy

Unlocking Federal Grant Data To Inform Evidence-Based Science Funding

Federal science-funding agencies spend tens of billions of dollars each year on extramural research, but a healthy dose of transparency could improve the grantmaking process greatly.

Science Policy

Strengthening Policy by Bringing Evidence to Life

With millions of new scientific papers published every year, acting on research insights presents a formidable challenge. But what if evidence could “live”?

Science Policy

Taking Out the Space Trash: Creating an Advanced Market Commitment for Recycling and Removing Large-Scale Space Debris

In order to mitigate the space debris problem in a way that also bolsters national economic growth, the U.S. government should create an advanced market commitment for recycling and de-orbiting satellites and large-sized debris.

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.

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Science Policy

The “FASTER” Act for the Federal Laboratory System

The FASTER Federal Lab Act will strengthen U.S. scientific and technology leadership through targeted legislative and policy reforms.

Science Policy

Re-envisioning Reporting of Scientific Methods

Publication of detailed scientific methodologies can save researchers time and money, and can accelerate the pace of research.

Education & Workforce

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Science Policy

The Invention Ecosystem: A Pathway to Economic Resilience and Inclusive Prosperity

A strong Invention Ecosystem can power our path to economic recovery, sustained growth and societal resilience.

Science Policy

Advanced Space Architectures Program: Championing Innovation in Next-Generation In-Space Operations

America’s leadership in space exploration could greatly accelerate through a fundamentally different approach to in-space operations.

Science Policy

Elevating Science and Technology Policy at the State Department

The Biden-Harris Administration should reinvigorate and reassert U.S. strength in science, technology, and data.

Science Policy

Advancing Astrobiology: The Search for Signs of Life Elsewhere in the Universe

NASA should invest in a comprehensive Astrobiology Program Office to answer one of humanity’s biggest questions: “Are we alone?”

Science Policy

Supporting Federal Decision Making through Participatory Technology Assessment

The next administration should establish a Participatory Technology Assessment unit to ensure federal S&T decisions benefit society.

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Science Policy

Advancing American AI through National Public-Private Partnerships for AI Research

The next administration should launch a public-private partnership to advance the research foundations of AI and its application at scale.

Science Policy

A Convergence Directorate at the National Science Foundation

The next administration should form a Convergence Directorate at the National Science Foundation to accelerate research and innovation.

Science Policy

A Federal Strategy for Science Engagement

The Federal Government should adopt a strategy for science engagement that enables everyone to participate in science.

Science Policy

Improving Science Advice for Executive Branch Decision-Making

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the crucial need for science to inform policy. This proposal identifies five key areas for action.

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Science Policy

Creating a National Fellowship for Entrepreneurial Scientists and Engineers

Establish a national entrepreneurial fellowship to accelerate the transformation of research discoveries into scalable, market-ready tech.

Science Policy

Modernizing the Relationship between Scientists and the Public

Despite growing demand for their skillsets, scientists aren’t trained to engage the public. This proposal offers policy actions to fix that.

Science Policy

Technology Policy

Open Access to Federally-funded Research Data

Require federally funded scientists to share their data. Build an international research data commons. Accelerate scientific progress.

Science Policy

Ambitious, Achievable, and Sustainable: A Blueprint for Reclaiming American Research Leadership

A blueprint to restore the foundation for U.S. competitiveness by embarking on a new growth trajectory for federal research spending.

Science Policy

Mass-Digitizing Biodiversity Collections of the United States

A coordinated effort to mass digitize the physical specimens in U.S. biodiversity collections.