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Applications close April 3. Learn more ⤵️ fas.org/accelerator/co…

What would it look like to build policy with communities, not just for them? The Colorado Future Systems Policy Sprint brings together experts across policy, research, and industry to tackle challenges from workforce transformation to climate resilience.

We're looking for a Senior Manager, Climate Tech and Innovation to guide and grow our emerging program on, well, Climate Tech and Innovation. You’ll… 🏗️ Build support for cutting-edge research in overlooked areas 🧺 Harness market and economic forces to scale high-impact environmental and climate solutions. 🫶 Support responsible research into climate interventions 😎 Promote productive, science-based dialogues around climate interventions among policymakers and in the public discourse ➕ … and more! (including fundraising, people managing, coalition-building, and whatever else is fun to you) Learn more about the role and apply here ➡️ fas.org/career/senior-…

We took to the Hill to brief Congress on emerging solutions to tackle the wildfire crisis, and share our favorite federal policy strategies for getting these solutions into the field. Here's a taste of what we talked about. fas.org/publication/ig…

The data collected by the government can be inputted into AI tools to produce "incredibly detailed inferences about people," Dr. Oliver Stephenson tells @thehill. "It’s not just data that’s showing anonymous patterns of life. We have transitioned from a world in which the limitation used to be on collection, and is now on analysis capabilities." thehill.com/policy/technol…

The USAF test-launched a Minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg into the Pacific. The missile carried three unarmed Mk12A reentry vehicles for the 335-kiloton W78 warhead. The MIRV test comes as US is considering increasing deployed warheads. vandenberg.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-D…

Read our full statement ⤵️ fas.org/publication/do…

What exactly does “all lawful use” of AI mean? No one knows. “Lawful” is a legal floor that will look increasingly shaky as AI capabilities advance. It doesn’t answer whether we have adequate civil liberties guardrails or technical safety standards in place.

Bootcamp is back, baby. Apply today 👉 fas.org/osint-bootcamp/

At this in-person, interactive boot camp, you will work directly with FAS Nuke Team members and external experts to develop skills in: - The basics, ethics, and communication of open-source analysis - Nuclear secrecy and transparency - Filing FOIA and declassification requests - Geolocation and satellite imagery analysis - Missile technology - More! Sound like fun? Apply by March 15 at the link below. Cohosted with our friends at @StanleyConnect fas.org/osint-bootcamp

🚨ATTENTION NUKE NERDS: Our one-week, intensive OSINT bootcamp to teach a new generation of open-source nuke investigators IS BACK. And this time, we’re going to Montreal. If you’re an early- to mid-career nuclear weapons analyst, this bootcamp is calling for you.

Revoking the endangerment finding would shove science aside in favor of special interests – at the expense of American health and wellbeing. Read our full statement ➡️ fas.org/publication/ep…

What FAS CEO @CorreaDan said👇

Today @scientistsorg is launching the Center for Regulatory Ingenuity to apply the insights of the state capacity movement - implementation matters! - to specific thorny problems that require a fundamental reimagining of regulation and governance, beginning with a focus on climate and energy. This is pretty new and different for us. FAS is a team of policy entrepreneurs who do most of our work on what I think of as “last mile” policy problems: taking promising ideas whose time have come, helping them become policy-ready ideas and making them real. But we find ourselves in a moment when inspiration also must flow the other direction: from implementation back to how we think about the fundamental design of the administrative state. That’s rooted in a growing recognition that flexibility and velocity of implementation require deeper interrogation, because these considerations show up downstream in what government delivers - on affordability, housing, climate and everything else. So today we launch CRI to apply the state capacity ethos to the difficult problems where it's most needed, and to foster a broad range of big, creative, and ideologically diverse ideas that can seed a new vision for how the administrative state is designed. As our team argues, "it’s hardly time to abandon the administrative state. But it is time to reinvent it. Our core supposition is that the sense of malaise and stasis characterizing current views of the bureaucracy has a substantial amount to do with mismatches between tools that produced current successes and the next set of tools that will be required to sustain and grow them." Read the full launch essay from Hannah Safford, Loren Shulman and Craig Segall here: fas.org/publication/re…

Want to join us in charting paths for a renewed administrative state, a more responsive government, and ambitious climate policy that lasts? Learn more about what we’re up to and how to get involved ⤵️ fas.org/publication/cr…

We’re pleased to welcome @ClimateGroup, @ICLEI_USA, and @ELIORG as core partners in this initial work.

Today we’re thrilled to launch the Center for Regulatory Ingenuity (CRI): a new hub to reimagine how government can better serve Americans. 🧵

The Environmental Protection Agency claims that the endangerment finding led to ‘costly burdens’ on American families and businesses, when in reality it’s the cost of failing to regulate climate pollution that will hit people the hardest.