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1 Introduction
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... These reviews are conducted under contract at the request of NIST. STATEMENT OF TASK The National Academies shall appoint a panel to assess independently the scientific and technical work performed by the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory.
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... How could this be improved? CONDUCT OF THE ASSESSMENT In 2023, at the request of the director of NIST, the National Academies formed the Panel on Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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... 116260) requested that NIST "contract with an independent entity to develop a report that assesses the comprehensive capital needs of NIST's campuses." In response, NIST's Office of Facilities and Property Management approached the National Academies to conduct a study based on a successful study and report completed for the National Institutes of Health in 2019 (NASEM 2019)
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... As shown in Table 1-1, this includes $120 million to $150 million per year for sustainment, capacity, maintenance, and major repairs funding to address the more than $800 million deferred maintenance backlog and bring existing facilities to an acceptable condition and keep them there. It also includes $300 million to $400 million per year over at least 12 years for the construction and major renovations budget to upgrade, renovate, and build the new laboratories with the new capabilities needed to conduct modern metrology research.
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... These are presented in the Summary, in the chapters in which they appear, and in the final recommendation summary chapter. The structure of the report chapters lays out thus:  Chapter 1: Introduction  Chapter 2: Overview of the Material Measurement Laboratory  Chapter 3: Applied Chemicals and Materials Division  Chapter 4: Biosystems and Biomaterials Division  Chapter 5: Biomolecular Measurement Division  Chapter 6: Chemical Sciences Division  Chapter 7: Materials Measurement Science Division  Chapter 8: Materials Science and Engineering Division  Chapter 9: Office of Data and Informatics  Chapter 10: Office of Reference Materials  Chapter 11: Material Measurement Laboratory's Responses to the Findings and Recommendations of the Fiscal Year 2020 Assessment Report  Chapter 12: Overarching Themes, Key Recommendations, and Chapter-Specific Recommendations from This Assessment REFERENCES NASEM (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
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