An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Measurement and Standards Laboratories Fiscal Year 2003 (2003) / Chapter Skim
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8 Information Technology Laboratory
8 Information Technology Laboratory
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, Vice Chair Michael Angelo, Hewlett-Packard Corporation Robert Blakley, Tivoli Systems John Boot, Motorola Corporation Linda Branagan, Secondlook Consulting Jack Brassil, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories James A Calvin, Texas A&M University Susan T
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Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division · Software Quality · Interoperability · Standards and Conformance Testing | Information Technology Laboratory Mathematical and Formation Technology Laboratory Advanced Net, ore Computational Sciences l l l | Technologies ~ ·v~s~ ;; l l Division · High Speed Networking · Mathematical Modeling Technologies · Mathematical Software · Wireless Communications · Optimization and Technologies Computational Geometry · Internetwork · S i tif A it ti~ I Technologies ~ ~ Information Access Divis ion _ Convergent Information · Speech Systems Division · Retrieval · Distributed Systems · Image Technologies · Visualization and Usability · Information Storage and ~ | I Integrated Systems Computer Security Division · Security Technology · Security Management and Guidance · Systems and Network Security · Security Testing and Metrics Statistical Engineering Division · Measurement Process Evaluation · Statistical Modeling and Analysis · Boulder Statistics FIGURE 8.1 Organizational structure of the Information Technology Laboratory. Listed under each division are its groups.
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· There is ample evidence of outstanding work in leveraging technology ideas across customer areas for industry, academia, government, and within NIST. · Collaboration across ITL divisions and between ITL and other NIST laboratories is increasing, and projects increasingly are demanding multidisciplinary team approaches.
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· Within the Computer Security Division: The Cryptographic Module Validation program is an important and well-conducted effort that continues to uncover and correct a large number of flaws in algorithm implementation and documentation, providing a common definition of "assurance" for users of those modules. The system administration guidance for the Windows 2000 Professional project can have an impact on Microsoft's own secure configuration development efforts; can establish a configuration with known security properties for use by system administrators, application developers, and auditors; and represents exemplary cooperation with industry (Microsoft)
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Pervasive computing efforts are also being conducted effectively by the Information Access Division and by the Advanced Networking Technologies Division, which is addressing wireless networking and standards and performing analysis of the resource discovery protocols being developed for ubiquitous computing systems. An example of cross-laboratory interaction is the use of the Smart Space testbed, part of the pervasive computing infrastructure, for the Single Molecule Manipulation and Measurement project undertaken by NIST's Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory and the Physics Laboratory.
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· The Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division leads several laboratory-wide initiatives in health informatics that promise to be of significant consequence to the health care delivery community. · The Statistical Engineering Division has been involved in the establishment of baseline data sets to be used in the assessment and evaluation of the computational accuracy of statistical software.
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Salient examples include these: · The Computer Security Division's Cryptographic Module Validation program has enabled purchasers, including the U.S. government, to be sure that the security attributes of the products they buy are as advertised and appropriate.
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For example, the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division is performing highquality work in collaboration with the Building and Fire Research Laboratory in the area of modeling and visualization of concrete hardening; this work supports a fragmented industry that consists largely of small firms. It is important that such work be performed with cognizance of the mechanisms by which it will be introduced to and used by the community; the panel would derive benefit in future briefings from hearing about how plans for the deployment of results are influencing work.
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During the past year, the IT responsibility was transferred from ITL to a separate unit, Technology Services, headed by a chief information officer who will report directly to the NIST director. Since a significant challenge for the ITL involved convincing the NIST laboratories to embrace consistent, institution-wide standards for IT systems, raising the Technology Services unit to a level equivalent with that of the laboratories was expected to provide needed visibility for the issue.
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The Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division has demonstrated particular adroitness at identifying and closing tasks that have effectively completed their usefulness, and this division's approach might be usefully examined by other divisions. The panel has observed and laboratory staff have explicitly stated that morale is at an all-time high in ITL, due in large part to the director's leadership style and direction.
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OA/NFG/CRADA Other Reimbursable Agency Overhead Total Full-time permanent staff (totally 31.9 1.6 12.0 2.4 0.0 9.9 1.6 16.4 75.8 381 44.4 1.1 11.9 2.3 0.1 12.2 1.0 18.4 91.4 368 46.7 1.7 42.0 1.1 1.9 0.2 12.2 16.1 29.4 92.1 401a 1.5 0.2 0.0 61.0 247 NOTE: Funding for the NIST Measurement and Standards Laboratories comes from a variety of sources. The laboratories receive appropriations from Congress, known as Scientific and Technical Research and Services (STRS)
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Examples of positive responses to suggestions made in last year's report include these: · The Convergent Information Systems Division addressed funding shortfalls, devoted additional attention to student interns and guest researchers, expanded involvement with external organizations, improved the flexibility of its business plan, performed impact studies to describe the impact on industry or society of several of the division's projects, and improved the content and usability of its Web site. · The Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division strengthened its strategic planning, expressing recognition that the demand for its work is increasing more rapidly than its resources.
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