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Day One 2025 Idea Open Call: Energy and Environment
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Accelerators
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…
Finance Analyst
Full-Time FAS Staff
Washington, DC
Full-Time FAS Staff
Finance Analyst Operations Team Full-time FAS staff Washington, DC The Opportunity The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is currently in search of a dynamic and detail-oriented Finance Analyst to join our esteemed finance team. In this role, the chosen candidate will play a crucial part in the processes of accounting, budget preparation, subcontracting, and subgranting. As a…
Day One Project Open Call for Ideas
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Accelerators
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…
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…
Day One 2025 Idea Open Call: Global Security
Accelerators
Remote - Washington, DC
Accelerators
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…
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…
Day One 2025 Idea Open Call: Government Capacity
Accelerators
REMOTE
Accelerators
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…
Director of Emerging Technologies and Competitiveness
Full-Time FAS Staff
Washington, DC
Full-Time FAS Staff
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…