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💻 Technology

Feb 06, 2026

Governing the Unknown

State and local governments face interconnected polycrises requiring new risk management approaches. Using workshop takeaways, this paper presents AI technologies, cross-regional partnerships, and insurance innovations as key adaptation strategies

United States

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🏛️ Politics

Feb 05, 2026

Justice for the accused

The second in the Justice for All series, this paper reflects on the drivers and costs of inefficiencies in the criminal court system in England and Wales

United Kingdom

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🌍 Geopolitics

Feb 05, 2026

Old priorities, new contexts

This perspective explores how China has adapted their rare earth elements (REE) policy to build a system that not only shapes global supply chains but also leverages global dependence on the critical materials

Global

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📚 Education

Feb 05, 2026

Promising Practices for Building Stackable Credential Infrastructure

In this paper, the authors review promising practices for designing and implementing stackable credentials—a short-term credential that builds toward a higher-level credential—to inform the efforts of states and postsecondary institutions

United States

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🌍 Geopolitics

Feb 04, 2026

Surveying Duality in Space

These proceedings share details on a workshop examining dual-use space systems (those capable of performing both civilian and military operations) that included space stakeholders from the Indo-Pacific from government, private, and research sectors

Global

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🏥 Healthcare

Feb 03, 2026

Medicare Ground Ambulance Data Collection System (GADCS) Report Appendix

This appendix updates the response rates, summary statistics, and econometric analyses described in the previous report with data from all cohorts of the GADCS reported as of May 15, 2025 (including Year 1 through Year 4 cohorts)

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Feb 03, 2026

Referral Pathways Into the NHS Digital Weight Management Programme for Musculoskeletal and Perioperative Patients

To understand reasons for variation and experiences of the implementation and functioning of referral pathways for musculoskeletal and elective surgical care patients into the NHS Digital Weight Management Programme

United Kingdom

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🏗️ Infrastructure

Feb 03, 2026

Who Funds Engineering Safety Research?

By developing understanding of the global engineering safety research publication and funding landscape, this work is intended to support research and funding in the field, leading to the development of safer engineered systems

Global

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🌍 Geopolitics

Jan 31, 2026

Improving Interoperability with Allies and Partners

The U.S. Air Force must generate and sustain airpower from dispersed, partner-owned locations. This brief discusses interoperability not as an end state but as a spectrum of cooperation that is tailored to requirements, standards, and capabilities

Global

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🌍 Geopolitics

Jan 31, 2026

Bridging innovation: Defence-civilian synergies for a resilient European future

This report presents the takeaways of an expert event titled ‘Bridging Innovation: Defence-Civilian Synergies for a Resilient European Future’, which was hosted on 8 September 2025 by the UK office of the Hanns Seidel Foundation and BASED Europe

United Kingdom

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📚 Education

Jan 31, 2026

Analysis of West Virginia’s State School Aid Funding Formula

This report, prepared for the West Virginia House of Delegates, is intended to provide an independent, holistic assessment of the state’s school aid funding formula and to identify opportunities for improvements in the state’s funding strategy

United States

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🏛️ Politics

Jan 30, 2026

The Science of Gun Policy

This report, in its fifth edition, synthesizes the available scientific evidence for the effects of various firearm policies on firearm deaths, violent crime, the gun industry, defensive gun use, and other outcomes

United States

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