Acknowledgements

We thank the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) for sponsoring this effort and supporting our work; in particular Joshua Marcuse, Dan Correa, Aleksandra Srdanovic, Jon Wolfsthal, as well as Thomas Kalil, of Schmidt Futures. FAS’s dedication to PPBE reform highlights how important this work is.

We thank the PPBE Commissioners and staff, particularly Lara Sayer and Caroline Bledsoe for their generous support, time, and resources. The work the PPBE Reform Commission has done is tremendously valuable to the nation. Our report focuses on only one part of an extremely complex set of recommendations and their research in this space has been expansive.

We thank our research participants for their generous time and insights. Without them we could not have created this work.

Thank you to our early readers for their help in making this report comprehensive, readable, and accurate.