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An Assessment of Four Divisions of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Fiscal Year 2018 (2018) / Chapter Skim
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6 Crosscutting Findings
Pages 37-40

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... Ideas that should be considered include the use of contractors to broaden the pool of potential participants in the ACMD mission; the use of sabbatical opportunities for career staff to broaden the range of skills in response to new areas for ACMD; and development of a more effective pipeline for graduate students into the ACMD through, for example, a broad-based university affiliates program. There is opportunity to increase the core full-time Advanced Network Technologies Division (ANTD)
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... This offers a prime opportunity to tap into the large pool of international graduate students who are already at 1 "The new NIST-wide Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) is designed to provide valuable laboratory experience and financial assistance to undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students." See https://www.nist.gov/iaao/academic-affairs-office/nist-professional-research-experience-program-prep, accessed August 20, 2018.
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... RECOMMENDATION: The ACMD should engage in a formal strategic planning exercise with the following goals:  Identify current core competencies and match them to NIST needs;  Identify gaps and new opportunities -- mapping what their strategic goals are to resources (budget and staff) -- in emerging areas such as artificial intelligence and machine learning; and  Engage the next generation of ACMD leaders in developing this plan, so that what emerges can be enthusiastically executed by them.
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... Conferences are among the best places to interact with the top graduate students from across the United States and the world. Aside from creating a direct impact on industry, presence and presentations at top conferences -- some of which accept only a fraction of the submitted papers -- create visibility to graduate students and communicate to these students that NIST is an exciting place to work.
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