Best Practices in Assessment of Research and Development Organizations (2012) / Chapter Skim
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This assessment has traditionally been provided by the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies.
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customer satisfaction for measurement services and for effectiveness in meeting the needs of the particular measurement program. STATEMENT OF TASK In 2011, NIST charged the National Research Council to conduct a study of best practices in assessing R&D organizations and to prepare a report providing NIST with information on peer-review and performance-evaluation systems.
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The panel gathered inputs from relevant literature and from formal discussions at panel meetings with representatives of the following organizations: NIST, the Defense Laboratory Office, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the IBM Corporation. On March 19, 2012, the panel steered a workshop at the Keck Center of the National Academies in Washington, D.C., at which representatives from the following organizations provided formal presentations on assessment practices: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities, former congressional staff, Sandia National Laboratories, The Dow Chemical Company, and Microsoft Research; a presentation was also made by the former Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development, and Acquisition.
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; a summary of assessment processes at NIST, ARL, and Sandia National Laboratories (Appendix J) ; a summary of assessment processes at selected other government organizations involving peer review of technical quality (Appendix K)
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