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ALFA FEATURE: Air Traffic Control Is Breaking. Software Can Fix It.

From the mid-air crash near Reagan National Airport to radar screens going black at Newark, the signs are clear. The Trump administration has recently released an ambitious plan to modernize our air traffic control system over the next three years. Here is an exclusive essay by a leading tech founder in the space on how to make it happen.

Let the Cameras Roll: It’s Time to Modernize Fishing Rules

Commercial fishing can be a lot more productive if regulations made technology adoption easier. But a 50-year old law still has fishers clinging to inefficient and expensive procedures. It's time to change that.

AI Forecasting Saves Lives

AI-based weather forecasting offers earlier and more precise models for meteorologists to make predictions, which can be the difference between life and death.

What Washington’s Missing with China’s AI Play

A range of policymakers in Washington, including those who would restrict the sale of American products, are misreading the competitive landscape. If we’re not careful, the conventional wisdom of measuring computational power will miss the more meaningful measurement to Huawei: market capture.

KEVIN MCCARTHY: The Law That Got Supersonic Flying Again

Policymakers don’t build rockets or fly jets. But they do build launchpads — the regulatory kind. And when those foundations are solid, innovation takes off.

“The biggest industry in the history of the planet.”

As technologies and VCs increasingly understand embodied AI as both a national security and economic imperative, the U.S. government is still treating it like a science fair. It’s time to catch up.

🏔️ Know the Snow, Deliver the Water: Congress Is Moving Water Supply Monitoring from the Lab to Operations

Water managers in 17 western states currently operate with forecast uncertainties that can swing reservoir operations by millions of acre-feet. Better snowpack intelligence means more efficient water allocation, improved hydropower planning, and reduced flood risk

An Autopsy on the State AI Moratorium

Technology doesn’t pause for procedural niceties. Yet Congress continues to treat AI like something that can be safely bracketed into old models and frameworks. That instinct—to sideline, defer, delay—doesn’t just waste time. It opens the door for a fragmented, 50-state patchwork that undermines any semblance of a national strategy.

⛴️️ Cable Games: What’s Slowing Down the Internet’s Most Important Pathways

Our world is now a digital one and undersea cables can serve as the backbone of the internet -- making sabotage to this data infrastructure an increasingly rich target.

How Tech Helps Law Enforcement

Police Week on Capitol Hill where lawmakers and law enforcement come together with the shared goal of supporting the men and women who keep us safe. But there is another constituency increasingly playing a massive role: technologists.