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... Evaluating federal research programs in response to GPRA Is challenging because we do not know how to measure knowledge while it is being generated, and its practical use might not occur until many years after the research occurs and cannot be predicted. For example, today's global positioning system is the result of research conducted 50 years ago in atomic physics.
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... . As it began its examination of the strategic and performance plans and reports of these agencies, the panel found that, given the preliminary state of change of the agency's approach to GPRA for its research programs and the different organization and methodology of each, the panel could only conduct a "snapshot" of each agency's approach.
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... Agency approaches to GPRA research programs demonstrate the utility of expert review using the same criteria of quality and relevance as outlined in COSEPUP's original report. The international leadership criterion is generally not evaluated by most federal agencies at this time, although several are interested in such a measure.
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... Conclusion 10: The clegree to which the results of GPRA reporting of research programs are being user!
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... work together as Leerier! to facilitate agencies integrating their GPRA requirements with their internal planning, bucketing, anc!
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... But by working more closely than they have in the past, the federal agencies and the oversight bodies can implement the letter and spirit of GPRA in ways that lead to greater efficiency, lower cost, and more-effective research programs that are demonstrably conducted in the national interest.
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