An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Building and Fire Research Laboratory Fiscal Year 2010 (2010) / Chapter Skim
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1 The Charge to the Panel and the Assessment Process
1 The Charge to the Panel and the Assessment Process
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2 The nine NIST laboratories are the Building and Fire Research Laboratory, the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory, the Information Technology Laboratory, the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, the NIST Center for Neutron Research, and the Physics Laboratory.
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The NIST laboratories conduct research to anticipate future metrology and standards needs, to enable new scientific and technological advances, and to improve and refine existing measurement methods and services. In order to accomplish the assessment, the NRC assembled a panel of 22 volunteers, whose expertise matches that of the work performed by the BFRL staff.3 The panel members were also assigned to five subgroups (Strategic Priority Area review teams)
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The panel's goal was to identify and report salient examples of accomplishments and opportunities for further improvement with respect to the following: the technical merit of the BFRL work, its perceived relevance to NIST's own definition of its mission in support of national priorities, and specific elements of the BFRL's resource infrastructure that are intended to support the technical work. These examples are intended collectively to portray an overall impression of the laboratory, while preserving useful suggestions specific to projects and programs that the panel examined.
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