An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory Fiscal Year 2007 (2007) / Chapter Skim
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Assessments of Laboratory Divisions
Assessments of Laboratory Divisions
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MCSD staff have the scientific expertise required to make significant contributions to this technical thrust. Their research publications, numerous collaborations, and education level (72 percent hold Ph.D.'s)
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The other IAD challenge problems -- Speech Recognition Evaluation, Spoken Term Detection, TREC Video, Document Understanding Conference, Fingerprint Minutiae Interoperability Exchange Test, Machine Translation Evaluation, and ACQUAINT -- also have no peers. As a whole, they represent an important national asset.
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Its expertise on issues related to measurement, including novel work on Bayesian methods to combine information about both statistical and nonstatistical sources of error, is an important asset. In addition, SED personnel play a vital role in collaborative efforts with other NIST programs, helping those programs to address relevant national priorities -- for example, a collaborative project with the NIST Center for Neutron Research supports development of hydrogen fuel cells.
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However, the scientific staff at SED noted that participation in such efforts requires cutting back on their collaborative efforts with other NIST laboratories and with groups external to NIST. For example, the Metrology Group's focus on participating in international metrology efforts has meant that it has not been able to participate in some standards projects for the American Society for Testing and Materials.
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Both the clever use of radio technologies for tracking and identifying people inside a building and the development of methods for rapid deployment of ad hoc wireless networks based on vector quantization of received signal strength build on the strong wireless expertise in this division. The division could do even better work if it had access to certain external research networks connected independently of the NIST campus network for security reasons.
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policy based on an extensive and detailed mapping of IPsec standards to management information bases -- some companies build security policy management methods on Microsoft's access control mechanisms, and almost every security research conference includes a few papers on policy management. ITL's work should be more heavily tied in to this outside work.
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. There are a surprising number of critical components surrounding PIVs, and standardization of information transfer and compliance testing are good ideas.
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The excellent SDCT division work that furthered the success of XML-related standards clearly is beneficial to information technology, and the particular standards are likely to improve national economic efficiency by permitting the better integration of diverse processes. The computer forensics project supports law enforcement agencies, particularly the National Institute of Justice, in their investigations of computer-related crimes.
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Even if some tools are unable to handle the larger code snippets, ITL should lead the definition of benchmarks that would guide industry toward the problems of direct interest to increase overall assurance of future systems. The health information technology project has made some good progress in outreach and visibility in important national health care standards organizations and multidisciplinary medical associations such as the American Telemedicine Association.
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onerous information technology regulations that interfere with carrying out the research mission. Also, overall administrative overhead seems to be increasing, with multiple new forms and regulations burdening the relatively small administrative staff.
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