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Appendix A Description of OST's Technology Investment Decision Model
Pages 97-102

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... The specific objective of this program is to improve the long-term effectiveness of DOE's cleanup effort by involving basic researchers from universities, national laboratories, and the private sector in long-term research to address DOE's most challenging environmental management problems.
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From page 98...
... Programmatic driver criteria to enter each stage include technology end user need; technical meet; cost; safety, health, environmental protection, and nsk; stakeholder, regulatory, and tribal issues; and commercial viability. If the FA/CC program manager determines that the technology warrants passing through a gate, the technology maturation process will continue.
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From page 99...
... Research conducted includes proof-of-principle and lab-scale experimentation, with the objectives of defining data requirements, preparing experimental designs, determining material requirements, and determining business attributes. Project effectiveness at this stage is measured in terms of whether the project satisfies experimental design plan acceptance criteria and all of the programmatic driver critena.
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From page 100...
... Gate 4: Entrance into Engineering Development Stage Gate 4 is a major decision point, at which a review group completes an evaluation of information supplied by the focus area, TD/PI, and others to assess whether the technology is the right technology, in the right place, at the right time. The deliverables produced by the TD/PI address gate programmatic driver criteria and include a cost-benefit analysis showing the anticipated benefits of cost savings and risk avoidance, and strategies for DOE deployment, commercialization, cost sharing, regulatory compliance, and licensing.
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From page 101...
... In addition, the TD/PI must address gate programmatic driver criteria, complete and document preliminary test results, and demonstrate that test plan requirements have been satisfied . Stage6: Demonstration In Stage 6, the product or technology is subjected to a "real-world" demonstration, either at a DOE site or at another location, using actual waste streams and/or anticipated operating conditions with the goal of verifying design assumptions made up to this point.
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From page 102...
... An end user signs a contract or approves operational use of the technology. The TIDM incorporates several essential principles that DOE believes should be maintained: 1.
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Key Terms

  • driver criteria
  • gate programmatic
  • experimental design
  • decision model
  • research stage

  • stage include
  • technology investment
  • investment decision
  • environmental management
  • design plan

  • satisfies experimental
  • address gate
  • plan acceptance
  • manager determines
  • acceptance criteria

  • technical merit
  • doe deployment
  • performance requirements
  • encourage cooperative
  • risk avoidance

  • preliminary field
  • waste management
  • fundamental scientific
  • exceed doe
  • cooperative relationships

  • defining data
  • anticipated operating
  • preliminary tests
  • doe baseline
  • lifecycle costs


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