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3 NIST RESPONSES TO BOARD-LEVEL RECOMMENDATIONS MADE IN THE FISCAL YEAR 1992 ASSESSMENT
Pages 20-26

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... NIST laboratories reoriented their intramural research projects and strengthened their industrial outreach to better support U.S. industrial competitiveness; were acquiring industrial input for planning; and had generated fiscal year 1994 budget initiatives critical to the competitiveness of U.S industry in electronics, advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, chemical processing, highperformance computing and communications, and international trade and standards.
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From page 21...
... These parameters of strategic planning encompass the concepts recommended by the Board. Traditional Core Programs In its fiscal year 1992 assessment, the Board alerted NIST to signs of the erosion of NIST's traditional core programs-e.g., standard reference data, instrumentation, calibration services, and related scientific and engineering research -- that support the nation's measurement infrastructure.
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From page 22...
... Over 60 percent of the CRADAs formed in fiscal year 1992 were with consortia, providing broad interaction with industry, and NIST laboratories increasingly used workshops with industrial representatives for designing and assessing programs. In collaboration with the Industrial Research Institute, NIST initiated a novel experimental program, the Opportunities for Innovation Program, that matches the skills of small entrepreneurial firms with opportunities afforded by large companies in areas of emerging technology such as polymer composites.
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From page 23...
... Details are given in this report's section "NIST-wide Issues" and in Part II, "Assessment of NIST's Major Laboratories." There was, however, no evidence that NIST attempted to develop the recommended matrix. During the fiscal year 1993 program and budgeting cycle, NIST emphasized highpriority competence building projects and the incorporation of successful competence building projects into the core programs.
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From page 24...
... make standards documents available to the requesting public under arrangements with copyright holders; (3) expand NIST's Standards Assistance Program, so that standards experts assigned to U.S.
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From page 25...
... initiatives that require cooperation between laboratories, such as the flat panel display technology initiative proposed jointly by the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory and the Computer Systems Laboratory, and the alternative refrigerants initiative proposed jointly by the Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory and the Building and Fire Research Laboratory; and (2) collaborations in competence building, Director's Reserve projects, and joint workshops.
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