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In 2019, we came together with an idea to arm the next presidential administration in January 2020 with 100 implementation-ready policy proposals crowdsourced from the science, technology and innovation community. Not only was our call for ideas met with an overwhelming response, but along the way we honed a vision for policy entrepreneurship: how anyone can convert a merely promising idea into real movement. Since 2020, we have helped a growing ...

Candidate Profile. FAS seeks an inaugural Director of Emerging Technologies and Competitiveness to lead a policy portfolio focused at the nexus of emerging technologies, R&D, commercialization and  American competitiveness. This new leadership role will integrate and support a suite of projects across FAS into a coherent, strategic whole while also being tenacious about seizing new opportunities as they arise. The ideal candidate is already a wel...

In 2019, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) came together with an idea to arm the next presidential administration in January 2020 with 100 implementation-ready policy proposals crowdsourced from the science, technology and innovation community. Not only was our call for ideas met with an overwhelming response, but along the way we honed a vision for policy entrepreneurship: how anyone can convert a merely promising idea into real moveme...

The Opportunity The Federation of American Scientists seeks a dynamic subject matter expert to serve as the Associate Director for Artificial Intelligence Policy. At FAS we believe in bringing technical expertise to federal AI policy debates with a goal of fostering the safe and responsible development of AI technologies and pursuing domains where deploying AI can do the most good. The vision for the role includes influencing federal policy makin...

In 2019, we came together with an idea to arm the next presidential administration in January 2020 with 100 implementation-ready policy proposals crowdsourced from the science, technology and innovation community. Not only was our call for ideas met with an overwhelming response, but along the way we honed a vision for policy entrepreneurship: how anyone can convert a merely promising idea into real movement. Since 2020, we have helped a growing ...

In 2019, we came together with an idea to arm the next presidential administration in January 2020 with 100 implementation-ready policy proposals crowdsourced from the science, technology and innovation community. Not only was our call for ideas met with an overwhelming response, but along the way we honed a vision for policy entrepreneurship: how anyone can convert a merely promising idea into real movement. Since 2020, we have helped a growing ...

In 2019, we came together with an idea to arm the next presidential administration in January 2020 with 100 implementation-ready policy proposals crowdsourced from the science, technology and innovation community. Not only was our call for ideas met with an overwhelming response, but along the way we honed a vision for policy entrepreneurship: how anyone can convert a merely promising idea into real movement. Since 2020, we have helped a growing ...

In 2019, we came together with an idea to arm the next presidential administration in January 2020 with 100 implementation-ready policy proposals crowdsourced from the science, technology and innovation community. Not only was our call for ideas met with an overwhelming response, but along the way we honed a vision for policy entrepreneurship: how anyone can convert a merely promising idea into real movement. Since 2020, we have helped a growing ...

Grid Planning Impact Fellow. Washington D.C. – Full-Time Remote. ABOUT THE POSITION. The FAS Talent Hub is seeking a fellow for a 1 year term (with potential opportunity to extend) to learn about the planning team within the Grid Deployment Office at the Department of Energy through embedding for a one-year term. The Fellow will support the team with developing a large-scale program for providing technical assistance to state agencies on grid and...

The Opportunity. . FAS seeks a dynamic leader to build and oversee a new portfolio focused on expanding the federal government’s capacity to deliver. FAS’ government capacity portfolio spans the key elements that underpin government effectiveness: talent, spending, modernization and oversight. The Director will build and lead a team that works across these domains to understand the root causes of barriers and bottlenecks to more effective governi...