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2 MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND PRIORITY SETTING
Pages 19-25

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From page 19...
... These presentations raised concerns establish research programs that meet national priorities and about the program's overall effectiveness, funding variations, the interests of industry partners. However, final funding priority setting, partnership performance, etc.
From page 20...
... sions on technical topics. Specific areas in which the govern In DOE vehicle research, which specifically addresses ment partners have already coordinated initiatives include the national issue of energy security and the increasing diesel fuel sulfur standard development (with coordination pressures of rising global consumption of oil, the FCVT between DOE and EPA on appropriate sulfur levels for lowProgram has involved the affected industries in planning the sulfur diesel)
From page 21...
... For example, the Partnership that can then take these issues off-line for consensus-building has conducted a meeting at DOT to discuss truck-related discussions within their sectors, so that final consensus on activities, a meeting at DOD, several meetings at various an issue can be reached more quickly, with less time spent DOE national laboratories to tour their facilities and bring in full Partnership discussions. lab capabilities to the attention of the government and Although the above discussion indicates a considerable industry participants, and a meeting of the full Partnership amount of interaction among the government and industrial with an industrial partner with international ties to discuss participants, no evidence was ever presented to the committee Partnership structure and activities with their overseas that these interactions included a rigorous go/no go ­process r ­ epresentatives. The agenda for these meetings focused on for evaluating individual projects.
From page 22...
... Agency personnel meet frequently and where substantial energy savings could be made, and at what industry partners meet periodically for limited sharing and cost, while facilitating a quick and easy comparison of the communication. This has been the extent of the coordination.
From page 23...
... If you had the latitude to double the current program the committee collected information using a questionnaire budget, where would you invest the additional funds? sent to the fifteen industrial partners and held discussions 9.
From page 24...
... A result has been difficulty in structure and budgetary process. Agency personnel meet balancing between near- and long-term projects and setting frequently and industry partners meet periodically for lim- appropriate metrics and measures.
From page 25...
... Each agency involved with the 21st Century Truck Partnership would identify each project considered part of the 21CTP, rank it by priority, and provide the information requested. Fig 2-5 ogy and concept development could receive proper focus for DOE (U.S.


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