Policy Paper

The Grid Is the Bottleneck: A Practical U.S. Agenda for Transmission, Interconnection, and Local Resilience
Electricity demand is accelerating while generation and storage projects wait behind slow interconnection studies and fragmented transmission planning. A practical response must connect regional planning, queue reform, interregional…

Buying AI for the Public: A Federal Procurement Standard for High-Impact Systems
Federal AI contracts should define evidence, testing, human authority, logging, incident response and exit rights before an automated system can shape consequential public decisions.

Rebuilding America’s Public Research Capacity: Talent, Shared Infrastructure, and Open Evidence
America’s scientific strength depends on more than total research spending. Federal policy must sustain technical talent, shared infrastructure, durable data and the capacity to turn evidence into public…