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An Assessment of the Smart Manufacturing Activities at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Engineering Laboratory Fiscal Year 2017 (2017) / Chapter Skim
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1 The Charge to the Panel and the Assessment Process
Pages 9-10

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... NIST laboratories conduct research to anticipate future metrology and standards needs, to enable scientific and technological advances, and to improve and refine existing measurement methods and services. At the request of the acting director of NIST, in 2017 the National Academies formed the Panel on Review of the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and established the following statement of task for the panel: The Panel on Review of the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology will assess the scientific and technical work performed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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... To accomplish the assessment, the National Academies assembled a panel of 24 volunteers whose expertise matched that of the work performed by the EL staff.2 On March 28-30, 2017, the panel assembled at the NIST facility in Gaithersburg, Maryland, for a two and a half day assessment, during which it received welcoming remarks from the EL director, heard overview presentations by EL management and presentations by researchers at the EL, toured portions of the EL facility, and attended an interactive session with EL management. The panel also met in a closed session to deliberate on its findings and to define the contents of this assessment report.
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