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9 Facilities, Equipment, and Personnel
Pages 65-69

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From page 65...
... Furthermore, the various facility issues with loss of power and inability to keep stable temperatures within measurement chambers due to underlying utility infrastructure and various agerelated facility issues have caused delays and reduced availability of services, as noted even by a random review of temporarily unavailable measurement services on CTL's website. Key Recommendation 12: CTL should immediately prioritize its budget allocations to rectify the Building 24 issues by making improvements or relocating its work to an improved facility.
From page 66...
... The Public Safety Immersive Test Center includes a high-end virtual reality system to test and measure potential advancements in user interfaces as well as location-based services. The PSCR team also has a partnership to use the National Guard's Muscatatuck Urban Training Center to field test technologies developed as part of the ongoing First Responder Smart Tracking prize challenge.
From page 67...
... The panel hopes that the process of acquiring necessary equipment can be sped up, but such considerations are outside the scope of recommendations to be made in this assessment PERSONNEL CTL has successfully completed a reorganization that brings together the diverse groups involved in smart infrastructure and manufacturing from across the organization to help bolster its research, experimentation, and standardization missions. These groups have common themes in the areas of cyberphysical systems that can benefit from organizational proximity and shared laboratory test infrastructure.
From page 68...
... Products could then be developed with accessible language using communications experts to share with the broader community in ways that offer insight into the future of communications. An example of how effective this could be is seen in decades of James Bond movies, with his communication spy watch preparing the public for today's Apple watch.
From page 69...
... In addition, NIST could partner with organizations like Project Connect and Advancing Minorities' Interest in Engineering, which includes the deans of 15 of the HBCUs with accredited engineering programs, to establish initiatives that develop a broad pipeline and student access across multiple campuses simultaneously. Key Recommendation 14: As part of the CTL diversification staff strategy, CTL should encourage and partner with technical staff to develop a strategic plan that leverages existing and potential opportunities available for growing and training the talent pool within the desired areas of expertise with the help of professional societies and minority-serving institutions campuses.


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