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4 OST's Peer Review Program
Pages 53-66

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From page 53...
... OST's peer review program was designed to provide program managers with credible, independent evaluations of the scientific and engineering merits of its technology projects. The peer review program evaluates technology projects at various stages of development (from basic research to late-stage demonstrations and implementation of the technologies)
From page 54...
... ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES As noted above, the main decision makers in terms of Finding technology projects within OST are the individual FA/CC program managers. As such, FA/CC program managers are the main "customers" of the OST peer review program.
From page 55...
... _ C'3 C~ .O S ~ 0- ~ O S ~ A ~ ~A~ D · A) z z o z FIGURE 4.1 Diagram of OST's Technology Investment Decision Model (DOE, 1998b)
From page 56...
... Specific responsibilities include developing a targeted plan for the program, including a prioritized list of projects to be reviewed; receiving, processing, and scheduling peer review requests from FA/CC program managers; coordinating peer review activities among FA/CC program managers, the ASME Peer Review Committee (see below) , and the review panels; ensuring that reviews are executed in a timely manner; ensuring that FA/CC program responses to review recommendations are included in Final Reports; managing the budget and records for OST; and tracking activity metrics for the program (DOE, 1998b)
From page 57...
... American Society of Mechanical Engineers The ASME establishes and sanctions the Peer Review Committee and its Executive Panel through formal approval by the Center for Research and Technology Development of ASME's Council of Engineering. The ASME ensures that peer reviews follow ASME procedures and serves as a resource for identifying potential peer review panel members.
From page 58...
... The peer review panel conducts the review, prepares a Report of the Review Panel (formerly termed Consensus Report) detailing its recommendations and observations, and transmits the written report to the Peer Review Coordinator, who forwards it to the FA/CC program managers for response.
From page 59...
... The RSI President manages the review program, sits on the ASME EP, and supervises RSI's activities related to the review programs Because the committee was asked not to review the DOE-ASME-RSI relationship, it could not arrive at a complete understanding of this relationship and therefore makes no comment onit.
From page 60...
... This list was sorted by the amount of funding each project had received to date. The list was then provided to all FA/CC program managers so that they could further prioritize their list of projects by the dates at which peer review results would be most valuable for making programmatic and/or funding decisions (DOE, 1998b, p.
From page 61...
... . To reduce costs and increase the number of projects that can be reviewed, OST now reserves Type II reviews for emergency situations where a program manager requires a short-term evaluation of the technical merits of a specific project or proposal, and encourages peer reviews of similar technologies to be grouped together in Type I reviews whenever possible (DOE, 1998b)
From page 62...
... Panel Formation According to presentations by RSI staff at the ASME Peer Review Committee meeting in November 1997, ASME uses three electronic databases and the ASME membership list (approximately 120,000 names) to identify reviewers meeting the above criteria.
From page 63...
... For each review, the FA/CC program manager submits a preliminary list of technology-specif~c criteria to the Peer Review Coordinator, who forwards them to RSI in the written request that initiates the review process. The proposed criteria are discussed among the Technical Secretary, Peer Review Coordinator, and OST managers, as necessary.
From page 64...
... A representative of the PRC describes the review program and discusses the review criteria, and the Peer Review Coordinator describes the OST process.
From page 65...
... A summary of the responses containing their salient features is added to the Report of the Review Panel to form the Interim Report. After DOE's response, the ASME PRC reviews the Intenm Report, and may add to it substantive, explanatory, clarifying, and supplementary comments and recommendations.
From page 66...
... FEEDBACK OF PEER REVIEW RESULTS INTO PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT DECISIONS OST's TIDM requires that peer review reports be used in all funding decisions made at Gate 4 and any subsequent gate in the technology development process. In the gate reviews, these reports are intended to constitute one input to be considered in determining whether to continue Finding for a project.


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