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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2013. Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18271.
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Acronyms and Abbreviations

AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science
AMTech Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortium program
ANC Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer
ANSI American National Standards Institute
API application programming interface
ARPA-E Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
ATE Advanced Technological Education
   
CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor
CoT Committee on Technology
CPSC Consumer Product Safety Commission
CRADA cooperative research and development agreement
CSSI Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives
   
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DHS Department of Homeland Security
DNI Director of National Intelligence
DOD Department of Defense
DOE Department of Energy
DOEd Department of Education
DOI Department of the Interior
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2013. Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18271.
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DOJ Department of Justice
DOS Department of State
   
EHS environmental, health, and safety
ELSI ethical, legal, and social issues
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
   
FCRP Focus Center Research Program
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FI flagship initiative
FY fiscal year
   
GAO Government Accountability Office
GIN Global Issues in Nanotechnology
   
HR human resources
   
IC integrated circuit, intelligence community
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IP intellectual property
ISO International Organization for Standardization
IT information technology
ITRS International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors
   
MGI Materials Genome Initiative
   
NACK Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge
NAMII National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCI National Cancer Institute
NCL Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory
NCN Network for Computational Nanotechnology
NEHI New England Healthcare Institute
NIC Nanotechnology in Cancer
NIH National Institutes of Health
NILI Nanotechnology, Industry Liaison, and Innovation
NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NISE Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2013. Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18271.
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NKI Nanotechnology Knowledge Infrastructure
NMMB National Materials and Manufacturing Board
NNAP National Nanotechnology Advisory Panel
NNCO National Nanotechnology Coordination Office
NNI National Nanotechnology Initiative
NNIN National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
NPEC Nanotechnology Public Engagement and Communications
NRC National Research Council
NRI Nanoelectronics Research Initiative
NSET Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (subcommittee)
NSF National Science Foundation
NSTC National Science and Technology Council
NYSERDA New York State Energy Research and Development Agency
   
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OMB Office of Management and Budget
ORCID Open Researcher and Community ID
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy
   
PCA program component area
PCAST President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
PI principal investigator
   
RFP request for proposal
   
SBIR Small Business Innovation Research
SEMATECH not-for-profit consortium (from Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology)
SIA Semiconductor Industry Association
SPIE An optics society
SRC Semiconductor Research Corporation
STEM science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
STTR Small Business Technology Transfer
SUNY State University of New York
   
TC technical committee
   
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
USPTO U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
   
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2013. Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18271.
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VCAT Visitor Committee on Advanced Technology
   
WTEC World Technology Evaluation Center
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2013. Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18271.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2013. Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18271.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2013. Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18271.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2013. Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18271.
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The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) is a multiagency, multidisciplinary federal initiative comprising a collection of research programs and other activities funded by the participating agencies and linked by the vision of "a future in which the ability to understand and control matter at the nanoscale leads to a revolution in technology and industry that benefits society." As first stated in the 2004 NNI strategic plan, the participating agencies intend to make progress in realizing that vision by working toward four goals. Planning, coordination, and management of the NNI are carried out by the interagency Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Committee on Technology (CoT) with support from the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO).

Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative is the latest National Research Council review of the NNI, an assessment called for by the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act of 2003. The overall objective of the review is to make recommendations to the NSET Subcommittee and the NNCO that will improve the NNI's value for basic and applied research and for development of applications in nanotechnology that will provide economic, societal, and national security benefits to the United States. In its assessment, the committee found it important to understand in some detail—and to describe in its report—the NNI's structure and organization; how the NNI fits within the larger federal research enterprise, as well as how it can and should be organized for management purposes; and the initiative's various stakeholders and their roles with respect to research. Because technology transfer, one of the four NNI goals, is dependent on management and coordination, the committee chose to address the topic of technology transfer last, following its discussion of definitions of success and metrics for assessing progress toward achieving the four goals and management and coordination. Addressing its tasks in this order would, the committee hoped, better reflect the logic of its approach to review of the NNI. Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative also provides concluding remarks in the last chapter.

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