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Emerging Technology
Request for Proposals: The Launch Sequence
...Bradley, secured grants from IFP and other philanthropic funders to explore founding a nonprofit to eliminate memory safety vulnerabilities in open-source code & critical infrastructure A bill based on The...
Infrastructure
Why FORGE Works
...FORGE model could position the US as a global leader in geothermal energy and contribute significantly to achieving clean energy abundance. IFP’s research into the value of FORGE encompassed interviews...
High-Skilled Immigration
Help Wanted: Modernizing the Schedule A Shortage Occupation List
...thousands of dollars and months of delays (currently more than 12 months), in those situations where U.S. labor market protections are appropriately pre-certified. The intended result is that immigrants who...
Infrastructure
How NEPA Will Tax Clean Energy
...The result has been a massive expansion in page numbers and detail, from a handful of pages in 1970 to 1,703 pages in 2018. One former EPA general counsel speculated...
Metascience
Fund Organizations, Not Projects: Diversifying America's Innovation Ecosystem with a Portfolio of Independent Research Organizations
...starship vs. NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). The ITER fusion program vs. fusion companies like Commonwealth Fusion and Helion. NIH grants for COVID-19 research vs. privately funded “fast grants” for...
Metascience
Indirect Cost Recovery and American Innovation: Context and Ideas for Reform
...is to reduce or end the use of project grants to fund overhead expenses, and to replace them with grants that specifically fund infrastructure or fund institutions through block grants....
Emerging Technology
Using X-Labs to Unleash AI-Driven Scientific Breakthroughs
...of the most important AI-for-science efforts could slip through the cracks of federal funding — too multidisciplinary, infrastructure- and engineering-heavy, or speculative for traditional grants. To operationalize this new scientific...
Metascience
Lab-Directed R&D at the National Labs
...follow-on funding from DOE headquarters. This model has repeatedly proven prescient: LDRD grants funded early-stage work that led to the Nobel Prize–winning discovery of the molecular mechanisms of CRISPR, for...
