The first report of the Strengthening America's Future Initiative (SAFI) was released on March 27, 2009, and is entitled Saving America's Future: A Challenge to the American People. The release was sponsored by Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) and Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA), and Congressman Jim Cooper (D-TN) also spoke at the event. The report examines the various challenges facing the country at this time, including providing efficient energy, ensuring quality public education, competing globally for jobs, and extending health care while reducing its cost.

Senior leaders from the public and private sectors affirm that the success of the next administration will likely be determined by the President’s effectiveness in dealing with an array of policy challenges all of which have essential ingredients of science and technology. They outline steps to ensure that the President and the Executive Branch have at hand the expertise and analytical assets required to marshal the best science and technology capabilities within the Federal government and throughout the nation to address major global and domestic challenges – the renewal of prosperity for Americans in a changed world, environmental protection, climate change, food and water scarcity, energy, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Regional security challenges of the 21st Century are often multifaceted and interrelated, and therefore demand a new joint response. To this end, the State Department requires accurate and firsthand knowledge to pool a wide variety of resources. But diplomatic planning and preventive capabilities have suffered during the last decade, as State Department staff and resources have been reduced and the agency's functional capability has been eroded. At the same time, the role of the regional Commander-in-Chief (CINC) in foreign affairs has grown significantly.

A Call for Transformational Leadership contains highlights from "A Call for Leadership: The United States and Japan," a two-day conference convened in Tokyo in 2001 under the leadership of Dr. Kazuo Inamori, President of the Inamori Foundation, and Dr. David Abshire, President of CSPC. More than 450 conference participants heard the views of political, financial and academic authorities on the skills required of modern day leaders and the challenges facing them. At this nationally televised conference, speakers made recommendations to strengthen the political process in Japan, promote economic recovery and structural reform, meet challenges facing the United States, improve U.S.-Japan relations, and raise the overall quality of leadership.

Developed in the year prior to the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, this panel report for the President and Congress calls for a new Strategic Advisory Board (similar to the new Homeland Security Advisory Council) to tap into the strengths of the most innovative minds in the private sector; a "contingency planning board" of the NSC to be led by a new deputy national security advisor; and a new Congressional Joint Strategic Committee (much like the new Select Committee on Homeland Security) to work with the Administration in developing anticipatory policies and building consensus for far-reaching national security reforms.

In Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency, more than 50 of the nation’s leading Presidential historians and journalists describe the most notable successes—and failures—of American presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Bill Clinton. This kaleidoscope of many of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century is presented in 76 case histories told by observers, practitioners, scholars and top advisors to the Presidents whose decisions resulted in success or failure, triumph or tragedy.

Co-sponsored with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, this condensation of a one-day conference includes remarks on science policy, Presidential Leadership, the evolutions of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the importance of Congressional support to basic science research. Participants included Presidential Science Advisors, former Cabinet and Office of Science and Technology Policy officials, Congressional staff, and academic leaders in science policy.

Wide oceans and prudent diplomacy have insulated America from enemies and potential adversaries for more than two centuries. Today, failing Third World states, proliferating weapons of mass destruction, and the increase in—and changing nature of—terrorism increase the number and complexity of threats to U.S. security as do the growing number of ethnic and humanitarian tragedies around the world.