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Emerging Technology
How to Make the NSTC a Moonshot Success
...investment agendas should pursue paradigm-shifting moonshots. While Congress laid out clear goals for the manufacturing grants in the CHIPS and Science Act, it left its instructions for the NSTC vague....
High-Skilled Immigration
A Prescription for Fixing the Prevailing Wage System
...most employment-based green cards (most immigrants in the EB-2 and EB-3 categories). In the NPRM, DOL states that its role in the immigration system is “to ensure that the introduction...
Metascience
Broadening the Knowledge Economy through Independent Scholarship
...grants, and/or are outcompeted for grants by well-recognized names and affiliations in academia. Finally, though independent scholarship is growing, there is still relatively little concrete data on who is engaging...
Emerging Technology
What Lessons Should the US Learn From DeepSeek?
IFP Director of Emerging Technology Policy Tim Fist presented this testimony on April 8, 2025 before the US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, during a hearing titled “DeepSeek:...
Infrastructure
How the White House Can Reform NEPA
...Part A of the two-part test. No (ministerial funding): Formula-based pass-through grants Some funding programs, such as the Clean Water State Revolving Funds, provide formula-based grants with little or no...
Infrastructure
A Pro-Supply To-Do List for Congress’s Housing Bill
...the Innovation Fund’s grants, which would offset the infrastructure costs of new housing. While new housing construction ultimately supports the local tax base, it can impose upfront demands on roads,...
Metascience
How Much Should We Spend on Scientific Replication?
...about 1.4% of the NIH’s annual budget before hitting negative returns relative to funding new science. But implementation matters: a poorly designed program or mistargeted grants can easily waste resources...
Emerging Technology
Compute in America: A Policy Playbook
...with grid modernization funding is hardly new. Under the 2009 Smart Grid Investment Grants program, all grantees of the program were required to “implement comprehensive cybersecurity plans and build cybersecurity...
