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An Assessment of the NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS: Fiscal Year 1993
Contents
Part I--
NIST Overview
1 NIST-wide Issues--Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendations
3
Strategic Planning,
3
Data Programs,
4
Research Balance,
6
Impact of Extramural Programs on Intramural Programs,
9
Collaboration with Industry,
11
Interlaboratory Teams,
14
Total Quality Management,
16
2 Comments on Selected Initiatives
17
Green Buildings Initiative,
17
Mathematics-based Manufacturing,
18
3 NIST Responses to Board-level Recommendations Made in the Fiscal Year 1992 Assessment
20
NIST-wide Issues--Fiscal Year 1992,
20
Suggestions for New Programs--Fiscal Year 1992,
25
Part II--
Assessment of NIST's Major Laboratories
4 Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory
29
5 Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory
65
6 Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory
87
7 Physics Laboratory
113
8 Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
153
9 Building and Fire Research Laboratory
179
10 Computer Systems Laboratory
213
11 Computing and Applied Mathematics Laboratory
239
Appendixes
A Functions of NIST,
255
B NIST Organizational Chart,
257
C Abridged Statement of Work,
258
D Letter Dated February 9, 1993, to Wilmer R. Bottoms from John W. Lyons, Describing Three NIST-wide Issues,
259
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An Assessment of the NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS: Fiscal Year 1993
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