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Appendix K Examples of Peer Review Conducted at Federal R&D Organizations
Pages 73-77

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... , noting that relevance and quality are key assessment foci across these organizations.2 A 1999 report of the U.S. General Accounting Office summarizes the peer-review practices for the following organizations, noting the significant variance across the organizations with respect to the amount and type of peer review applied: ARS, Forest Service, NIST, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
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... Both groups consider the impact of technical developments on the future of naval forces. For a detailed technical review of its technical base research programs, the Naval Research Laboratory establishes and manages its own peer review.
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From page 75...
... The Department of Energy's NNSA contracts for LANL and LLNL explicitly call for regular peer review; Sandia's contract contains similar language. LANL and LLNL are operated by a consortium of the University of California and the Bechtel Corporation, with additional partners from the Babcock and Wilcox Company and the Washington International Group.
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... Principal investigators receive the reports and must respond to panel critiques. Nuclear weapons-related peer review at Sandia includes three kinds of internal reviews: design, management, and internal peer review (members from entities other than the design team under review)
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... TARA reviews are no longer conducted. Clearly there is no single, accepted best way to conduct peer review of federal S&T laboratories.
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