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 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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