Month: April 2023

Lincoln Network Becomes the Foundation for American Innovation

April 25, 2023 | Zach Graves

Today, Lincoln Network becomes the Foundation for American Innovation (now at thefai.org). We believe that this new name will help us better convey our mission to our audience of technologists, policymakers, founders, and politicos, reflecting the growing scope and impact of our work. Let’s take each word in our new name in turn. When we began in 2014,

April 21, 2023 | Lars Schönander

Click here to download a PDF of the testimony. Chairman Dave Joyce, Ranking Member Henry Cuellar, and Members of the Subcommittee: My name is Lars Erik Schönander. I am a Policy Technologist at Lincoln Network, a think tank working to bridge the gap between Silicon Valley and D.C. by applying technology and technical talent to

April 20, 2023 | Dan Lips

Click here to download a full PDF of the testimony. Chairman Reed, Ranking Member Fischer, and members of the Subcommittee: My name is Dan Lips. I am Head of Policy at Lincoln Network. I am writing to respectfully urge the Subcommittee to support the Comptroller General’s FY2024 budget request for the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

April 19, 2023 | Dan Lips

Today, I submitted a letter to Senators Bernie Sanders and William Cassidy, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, offering input on policies that the Committee should consider during the reauthorization of the Education Sciences Reform Act. Click here to download a PDF of the letter. Dear Chairman Sanders and Ranking

April 18, 2023 | Dan Lips

Today, members of Lincoln Network joined 13 organizations in signing a letter to Senators Maggie Hassan and Todd Young, applauding them for their ongoing leadership in the effort to restore full and immediate expensing for investments in U.S. research and development (R&D). Click here to download a PDF of the letter. Dear Senators Hassan and Young: On

April 17, 2023 | Evan Swarztrauber

Lawmakers across the political spectrum are increasingly focused on reining in the market power and abuses of Big Tech, particularly when it comes to social media. If the history of tech policy is a lack of regulation and firms avoiding responsibility for “moving fast and breaking things,” then there’s perhaps no more illustrative example than

April 17, 2023 | Jon Askonas

This piece was originally published in Foreign Policy. The recent leaks of classified U.S. military documents on the Russian-Ukrainian war count among the worst Western intelligence failures in recent history. Veteran intelligence officials, however, are shocked for a different reason: The particular way the top-secret documents spread—and the apparent motivation for the leaker. The information

April 14, 2023 | Dan Lips

Click here to download a full PDF of the testimony. Chairman Diaz-Balart, Ranking Member Lee, and members of the subcommittee: Thank you for the opportunity to submit written testimony. My name is Dan Lips. I am Head of Policy at Lincoln Network, a think tank focused on promoting innovation, strengthening governance, and advancing national security.

April 14, 2023 | Jonathon Hauenschild

Click here to download a full PDF of the testimony. Chairman Rogers, Ranking Member Cartright, and Members of the Subcommittee: We are writing on behalf of Lincoln Network, a think tank working with policymakers and tech innovators to promote market-oriented ideas that strengthen American innovation. We write to encourage the Subcommittee to provide appropriations sufficient

April 14, 2023 | Samuel Hammond

Click here to download a full PDF of the testimony. Chairman Hal Rogers, Ranking Member Cartwright, and Members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for the opportunity to testify. My name is Samuel Hammond, and I am Senior Economist at Lincoln Network, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting innovation, improving governance, and strengthening national security.

April 13, 2023 | Dan Lips

Click here to download a full PDF of the testimony. Chairman Hal Rogers, Ranking Member Cartwright, and Members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for the opportunity to testify. My name is Dan Lips. I am Head of Policy at Lincoln Network, a think tank focused on promoting innovation, strengthening governance, and advancing national security. I

April 13, 2023 | Aaron Ginn

This piece was originally published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Gov. Greg Abbott’s top priority for the legislative session is to give families more freedom to choose the right school for their children. Abbott has called for lawmakers to establish education savings accounts to give parents direct control of their child’s share of school funding.

April 13, 2023 | Jonathon Hauenschild

This piece was originally published in The Hill. Imagine posting content to Facebook or Twitter critical of the federal government, only to have agents knocking on your door a few days later, demanding your computer, and claim that you helped promote a foreign narrative. The officials come armed only with subpoenas, not warrants, and you

April 13, 2023 | Geoff Cain

This piece was originally published in Persuasion. In 2017, I was in China’s westernmost region of Xinjiang, investigating how China had erected the most sophisticated surveillance state ever with the help of tech companies from both China and America. An estimated 1.8 million people, mostly Muslim Uyghurs, would be hauled away for such thought crimes as

April 11, 2023 | Jonathon Hauenschild

Last week, Arkansas joined the national trend of attempting to kick social media platforms out of the state. The Legislature has passed the Social Media Safety Act, which adds age verification requirements for all new account holders in an effort to prevent cyberbullying and keep inappropriate material from children. But whatever the intention, the approach

OpenAI’s Big Lesson for Science Policy

April 11, 2023 | Samuel Hammond

This piece was originally published at Second Best. The incredible success of Large Language Models like ChatGPT is both a scientific breakthrough and a boon for future scientific discovery. As a recent editorial in Nature explains, …large language and vision models that can digest the literature will be used to identify gaps in knowledge, help summarize and

April 11, 2023 | Lars Schönander

Click here to download a full PDF of the testimony. Chairman Andy Harris, Ranking Member Sanford Bishop, and Members of the Subcommittee: My name is Lars Erik Schönander. I am a Policy Technologist at Lincoln Network, a think tank working to bridge the gap between Silicon Valley and D.C. by applying technology and technical talent

Winning the Next Space Race

April 6, 2023 | Luke Hogg

Ensuring a Competitive Satellite Internet Market to Compete with China Technical innovation in the delivery of the Internet by satellite has the potential to close the digital divide and improve Internet services for customers in the United States and around the world. With China planning to launch its own “megaconstellation” of internet-providing satellites into low

Quarterly Activities Update, Q1 2023

April 5, 2023 | Zach Graves

Dear friend of Lincoln: I’d like to share with you some of our team’s recent activities, including new research from Lincoln Policy, project updates from Lincoln Studio, and other developments across Lincoln Network. Take a look at what the Lincoln team has been working on over the last few months. Policy Our policy team had

April 4, 2023 | Dan Lips

Click here to download the full report in PDF format. Executive Summary Improving elementary and secondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education has been a long-standing priority for national security and American competitiveness. Today, the United States faces new challenges focusing national attention on the need to improve STEM education including computer science. Widespread school closures

April 3, 2023 | Zach Graves

Lincoln Network is thrilled to announce that today, Samuel Hammond is joining our policy team as Senior Economist. Samuel’s research will focus on innovation and science policy, state capacity, and the impact of disruptive technologies such as AI on U.S. institutions. Samuel was previously Director of Social Policy at the Niskanen Center, where his research