TFAI Webinar Innovation in Crisis: Emerging from a Pandemic to Restore American Competitiveness Date: March 12, 2021 Time: 10:00 – 11:00 EST The Task Force on American Innovation (TFAI) invites you to a special briefing: Innovation in Crisis: Emerging from…
This week in The Hill, TFAI Co-Chairs David Isaacs and Kathleen Kingscott made the case for a renewed emphasis on research and development funding: The COVID-19 challenge has demonstrated again what has always been true — America must be the…
Today, Representative Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) discussed the importance of research and development for American manufacturing, with Tim Farley on Sirius/XM POTUS Radio’s Morning Briefing program. Listen here: Follow @MorningBriefing on Twitter for more POTUS Radio.
Today, Eric Fanning, President and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association, spoke with POTUS Radio’s Tim Farley about scientific research and innovation. Listen here: Visit http://www.innovationtaskforce.org/benchmarks2019/ to learn more.
Patrick R. LeClair, professor and department chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Alabama, recently made the case for NIST research funding: Imagine not having GPS to find a new destination, locate your smart phone…
On Tuesday, October 24th, 2017, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM Eastern, NASEM’s Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) will host a free public webinar on the recent STEP report assessing ARPA-E. Details are below. If you’re interested, please join us – just…
Lotfi Zadeh took more than his fair share of criticism for his outside-the-box idea. Well, actually it was more of a do-away-with-the-box-entirely idea. The name he gave his original concept in 1965, “fuzzy sets” – a critical part of fuzzy…
Materials scientist Olle Heinonen recently made the case for the United States to repair its scientific infrastructure: President Donald Trump’s $1 trillion plan to repair the nation’s dilapidated roads, antiquated bridges and shabby railways through an infrastructure overhaul is a…
Caltech professors Barry Barrish and Kip Thorne, awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 2017, expressed concern about the state of science funding in the United States: At MIT and Brandeis University this week, newly minted Nobel Prize winners stressed…
The Golden Goose Award, honoring federally funded research with silly sounding or obscure beginnings that has gone on to have enormous societal impact, will present its 2017 honorees at the Library of Congress on September 27, 2017. In honor of…