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An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory Fiscal Year 2008 (2008) / Chapter Skim
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Overall Conclusions
Pages 23-24

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... These factors include a significant percentage of division budgets relying on opportunistic funding, an overhead structure that has put increasing reliance on guest researchers and makes the postdoctoral rates noncompetitive, a lack of successor personnel in key technical positions, and a dwindling supply of workers in certain areas such as metrology. High-impact progress in the future will likely require disinvestment in some areas and strategic refocusing.
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  • future impact
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  • opportunistic funding
  • successor personnel
  • technical capability
  • increasing reliance
  • budgets relying

  • overhead structure
  • increasingly limit
  • dwindling supply
  • factors include
  • rates noncompetitive

  • rapidly changing
  • strategic refocusing
  • require disinvestment


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