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Agencies have spent substantial time and effort in devising ways to implement the act. However, both the agencies and oversight bodies must still develop better refinements to improve interpreting, implementing, and communicating with each other about GPRA.
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Conclusion 2: Some agencies are using the GPRA process to improve their operations. These agencies report benefits in strengthening program management and enhancing communication about their programs to the users of research and the general public.
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Agency approaches to GPRA research programs demonstrate the utility of expert review using the same criteria of quality and relevance as outlined in COSEPUP's original report. The international leadership criteria is generally not evaluated by most federal agencies at this time, although several are interested in such a measure.
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Conclusion B: Due to timing requirements built into the legal guicielines of GPRA, agencies fine! that they must begin work on performance plans before the relevant performance reports are complete.
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the explicit use of the cleve~opment of human resources as an indicator in performance plans anc! reports.
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Agencies should make clear how they validate their research-evaluation methods, such as the means by which they select expert reviewers and choose to aggregate research programs r for review.
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In ac~clition, they shouIc! work together to acliust the timing of GPRA reporting to capitalize on the value of the planning process.
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as an explicit objective of GPRA performance plans anc! reviews.
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Recommendation M-7: Agencies shouIc! clevise ways to ciescribe how they valiciate their research-evaluation methods, describing, for example, how they select expert reviewers anc!
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But by working more closely together than they have in the past, the federal agencies and the oversight bodies can implement the letter and spirit of GPRA in ways that lead to greater efficiency, lower cost, and more effective research programs that are demonstrably conducted in the national interest.
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Implementing the Government Performance and Results Act for Research: A Status Report The TARA review process is used at all levels of decision-making. For example, the TARA 2000 review of chemical-biologic defense S&T program (against such agents as mustard gas, nerve gas, anthrax, plague, and smallpox)
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