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to ensure that the United States maintains a technological lead in developing and deploying advanced energy technologies." 2 ARPA-E began operating in 2009, and as requested by the Congress, the National Academy of Sciences convened an ad hoc study committee to undertake this assessment starting in 2015, after 6 years of agency operations. The purpose of this study was to provide the information requested by the Congress as input to its consideration of the future of ARPA-E, to summarize 1 42 U.S.C.
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was established in 2009 for the stated purpose of funding energy technology projects by "identifying and promoting revolutionary advances in fundamental and applied sciences; translating scientific discoveries and cutting-edge inventions into technological innovations; and accelerating transformational technological advances in areas that industry by itself is not likely to undertake because of technical and financial uncertainty." An ad hoc committee will review and evaluate the progress that ARPA-E has made toward achieving its goals. The committee will develop a methodology and framework for an operational assessment as well as a retrospective and technical assessment of ARPA-E and then conduct both.
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The committee's retrospective assessment and technical evaluation will describe the most significant accomplishments and/or impacts of the ARPA-E program to date and any unique features of the program that may have contributed to these accomplishments, and consider how well ARPA-E's activities have supported the agency's goals. Specifically, the committee will: • Analyze specific focused technology programs and/or awardee projects to determine whether ARPA-E is focused on truly "transformational" technologies; • Examine funded projects to assess and whether ARPA-E solicitations attract the best and brightest to the relevant program areas; • Identify where ARPA-E projects have made an important difference; and • Assess performance of the portfolio of awards and evaluate whether and how much the award portfolio has helped ARPA-E achieve its goals.
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Some data gathering and processing was performed by independent consultants. The Internal Operations Qualitative Data Team collected and analyzed qualitative data, including information gathered during interviews with current and former ARPA-E personnel and DOE officials and discussions with stakeholders at agency events, such as program kickoffs and Copyright National Academy of Sciences.
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Chapter 4 presents the committee's technical assessment of the extent to which the projects ARPA-E has funded have contributed to the agency's achievement of its statutory mission and goals, to the extent this can be ascertained from the relatively brief experience base accumulated since the agency began its operations. The report also includes six appendixes: Appendix A provides biographical information on the committee members; Appendix B provides a disclosure of conflict of interest of a committee member; Appendix C Copyright National Academy of Sciences.
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