An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Building and Fire Research Laboratory Fiscal Year 2008 (2008) / Chapter Skim
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The Charge to the Panel and the Assessment Process
The Charge to the Panel and the Assessment Process
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Is available funding adequate to achieve 2 The nine NIST laboratories are the Building and Fire Research Laboratory, the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory, the Information Technology Laboratory, the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, the NIST Center for Neutron Research, and the Physics Laboratory.
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In addition, because NIST has begun to receive increases in funding through the President's ACI and the America COMPETES Act of 2007, the Director of NIST requested that the assessment panels specifically examine and review the progress of all of the FY 2007-funded initiatives relevant to their respective laboratories and comment on these program growth areas explicitly in their reports. At the BFRL, that work focuses on disaster-resilient structures and communities, including efforts related to hurricanes, wildland fires, and earthquakes (including community-scale loss estimation)
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The BFRL provided the panel with background materials, including a recent BFRL annual report; information on the BFRL budget, staffing, awards, and standards activities; a BFRL organizational chart; the NIST programmatic plan for FY 2009-2011; and a list of BFRL publications for FY 2007. BFRL staff also set up a Web site for panel members that provided additional links to further reference materials.
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