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4 Expert Panel Process
4 Expert Panel Process
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The expert panel eXPerT PaNel comPosiTioN conducts a technical assessment based on a brief description by DOE of the program under review and its component Six to eight experts are empanelled to evaluate a given projects. The panel assesses the conditional benefits of the DOE program and to apply the process, including the risk program, assuming the program meets its stated goals.
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reviewed. To assure independence, freedom from conflict of interest, • At the completion of each panel meeting, meets with and balanced composition, a process similar to that used by the oversight committee chair to assess crosscutting and the National Research Council (NRC)
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Evaluate the panels' progress, working with informaing the decision tree or trees, facilitating the assignment of tion from the panel chairs and the consultant(s) between probabilities to technical and market risk outcomes, and panel meetings.
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The consultant(s) prepares and distributes a questionnaire In the afternoon open session, the panel hears presenta- soliciting probability estimates from each panel member for tions by the DOE program manager, who elaborates on each major variable in the decision tree.
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The panel reviews the decision tree and the preliminary probabilities assigned by individual panel meeting to ensure consistency among Panels ists, identifies and discusses any areas where significant difference of opinion on technical and market risks exists Following the panel meetings, and before finalizing their among panel members, and determines whether additional reports, the panel chairs and consultant(s) meet again with information is necessary to resolve those disagreements or the chair of the oversight committee to discuss panel activirefine individual inputs.
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for success of the non-DOE programs. • Data should be reported consistently across individual To establish the character of the non-DOE R&D activities projects in the program to support project data aggregation the review panel must, the goals, objectives, funding, and at the program level.
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port or compete with the DOE program and evaluate their • Role of the panel chairs. Before the first panel meeting, impact on expected benefits.
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The oversight committee would meet three times a year to review panel reports as they are completed for consistency and provide feedback to the panels. 2JASON is a third-party review of the DOD weapons program, estab lished in the 1950s, managed by MITRE Corporation and funded by the Department of Defense Research and Engineering.
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