Mission

FAS is a catalytic organization that exists to drive the science and technology community forward. In FY24 (July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024), FAS will continue to work across the federal government, philanthropy, universities, and other organizations to set and advance agendas in each of our policy areas, create better connectivity across our work, and increase opportunities to support and partner across the science and technology ecosystem to drive meaningful change. FAS will continue to advance progress and action in priority domains – nuclear weapons, energy, climate and environment, environmental justice, entrepreneurship, education equity and access, and science and technology policy – delivering on work secured and strategically expanding within and across our program verticals. FAS is a dynamic organization that drives change through three core activities: policy entrepreneurship, talent innovation, and agency partnerships. The way in which we uncover opportunities, design interventions, share ideas and collaborate to drive action across these three core activities is what differentiates us in the marketplace. The domains (i.e., verticals) in which we operate are designed to be flexible and fluid to accommodate changes in legislative or administrative leadership and changes in science and technology policy priorities. A commitment to ongoing learning, opportunity spotting, adaptation, agility and drive towards action is our unique value proposition. Landmark legislation has generated once in a generation federal investment in the science and technology policy field. FAS will continue to be diligent in spotting and building opportunities to drive action, regardless of political environment, that specifically focus on ensuring that the CHIPS and Science Act, Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), and other important pieces of legislation are well implemented and executed at the federal level and within other facets of the ecosystem including local and state government, the policy and advocacy community and academia.