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but also to serve the public good through technology transfer, assessing and mitigating the risks associated with nanotechnology, educating students at all levels, reaching out to and informing the public about nanotechnology, developing a nanotechnology 1 NationalScience and Technology Council (NSTC) , National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategic Plan, Committee on Technology, Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology, February 2011, available at http://www.nano.gov/sites/default/files/pub_resource/2011_trategic_ s plan.pdf, accessed December 19, 2012.
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It grew from the 8 federal agencies that came together in the late 1990s to form the Interagency Working Group on Nanotechnology to 26 participating agencies today with a cor responding increase in the federal budget for nanotechnology research from about $500 million in 2001 to nearly $1.8 billion in the President's 2013 budget request. The cumulative investment in the NNI since 2001 (including the estimated spend ing in 2012)
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Nanotechnology is not a single technology: It is the application of control and manipulation of matter at the nanoscale to create technology solutions -- for example, for improving human health, optimizing available energy and water resources, supporting a vibrant economy, increasing the standard of living, and increasing national security. The successful discovery, development, and use of nanotechnology depend also on facilities, education, an educated workforce, technology transfer, risk assessment, and risk management.
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. SOURCE: National Sci ence and Technology Council Committee on Technology Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineerng, and Technology, National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategic Plan, February 2011, p.
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The 2011 strategic plan included more detailed objectives for each goal, some of which are quantitative. Also new was an emphasis on collaborative agency activities, most notably the signature initiatives, "areas ripe for significant advances through close and targeted program-level interagency collaboration to enable the rapid advancement of science and technology in the service of national economic, security, and environmental goals by focusing resources on critical challenges and R&D gaps."5 Today, there are five signature initiatives: •• Nanotechnology for Solar Energy Collection and Conversion: Contributing to Energy Solutions for the Future.
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As required by statute, the NSET Subcommittee develops and publishes an annual report and budget request in the form of the NNI supplement to the President's fiscal year budget. The annual reports detail progress toward each of the NNI's goals from an agency-by-agency perspective and highlight specific inter agency activities, changes in the balance of investments by NNI member agencies among the PCAs, information on use of the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs in support of nanotechnology development, and responses to external NNI reviews.
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6 National Research Council, Interim Report for the Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative, Phase II, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2012 (reprinted in Appendix E)
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The committee believes that the synergy added by the NNI to the substantial strengths residing in the 26 NNI participating agencies has proved to be a result of a wise and fruit ful investment by the United States. The challenge is to develop a framework that supports targeted NNI goals, planned outcomes, metrics, and processes and that allows participating agencies to meet their missions while maximizing the collective benefit of nanotechnology R&D to taxpayers and the nation.
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