Program areas at FAS
Social InnovationThe Social Innovation team at FAS strives to produce, advance, and support cutting-edge policy in issue areas that fall within the domain of social policy (such as education, housing, workforce development, and the justice system). Social Innovation is also home to the FAS Day One Talent Hub. The Day One Talent Hub's mission is to encourage and support the exchange of diverse scientific and technical policy experts with federal agencies undertaking ambitious S&T priorities. The Talent Hub provides onramps for external scientific and technical talent to participate in tours of service to augment existing agency expertise, while ultimately aiming to build the capacity of federal partners to utilize and leverage the full suite of flexible hiring authorities at their disposal.
Technology and InnovationThe Technology & Innovation Vertical at FAS seeks to unlock high-leverage science and technology policy action by delivering crowdsourced, customer-specific, actionable ideas aimed at policymakers while providing direct technical assistance to federal agencies on crosscutting issues related to federal R&D and budgets, regional innovation clusters, industrial strategy for critical and emerging sectors, high-skilled immigration, strategic global development and competition and more. At a moment of intense global competition with China and existential threats of climate change, the federal government is making unprecedented investments into our nation's innovation ecosystems. The Technology & Innovation Vertical brings an entrepreneurial approach to ambitious policy ideas that meet these challenges.
Special ProjectsThe FAS Special Projects seeks to support burgeoning entrepreneurs in science and technology policy. Through this program, FAS provides incubation and support for philanthropic endeavors in an effort to forge partnerships and expand our impact in the science community.
Science PolicyThe Science Policy team builds and leverages connections between experts with ideas about how to use science to better serve the public good, and policymakers with the capacity to turn those ideas into reality. The team works across a range of priority domains, including environmental justice, the bioeconomy, clean energy, and many more. The team also strives to improve government effectiveness using insights from the science of science and evidence-based decision making.
National SecurityThe Nuclear Information Project provides the public with reliable information about the status and trends of the nuclear weapons arsenals of the world's nuclear-armed countries.The Defense Posture Project lays the groundwork for a US defense posture that is capable and credible, sufficiently restrained to maintain strategic stability, and fiscally sustainable.