Setting Priorities for Large Research Facility Projects by Committee on Setting Priorities for NSF-Sponsored Large

By Committee on Setting Priorities for NSF-Sponsored Large Research Facility Projects, National Researc

In 1995, the nationwide technological know-how beginning (NSF) created a unique account to fund huge (several millions of bucks) examine amenities. through the years, those amenities have come to symbolize an more and more favorite a part of the nation's R&D portfolio. lately obstacle has intensified in regards to the means NSF is choosing initiatives for this account. In 2003, six U.S. Senators together with the chair and rating member of the Senate Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and self sufficient organizations Appropriations expressed those issues in a letter to the NRC asking it to study the present prioritization procedure and report back to us on the way it may be superior. This file offers a sequence of tips about how NSF can increase its precedence environment approach for big examine amenities. whereas noting that NSF has more suitable this method, the document states that extra strengthening is required if NSF is to satisfy destiny calls for for such tasks.

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The rankings show what we would expect to happen first within a field, then within a directorate of NSF, and then across NSF. The criteria from earlier stages must continue to be used as the ranking proceeds from one stage to the next. • First Ranking: Scientific and Technical Criteria Assessed by Researchers in a Field or Interdisciplinary Area ° Which projects have the most scientific merit, potential, and opportunities within a field or interdisciplinary area? ° Which projects are the most technologically ready?

Html 20 LARGE RESEARCH FACILITY PROJECTS past. NSF has improved the administration of the MREFC program over the last decade, but further improvements are necessary and possible. In response to the first concern, in its 2003 report Science and Engineering Infrastructure for the 21st Century: The Role of the National Science Foundation, the NSB examined the status of the nation’s science and engineering infrastructure and concluded that there is an urgent need to increase Federal investments to provide access for scientists and engineers to the latest and best S&E infrastructure, as well as to update infrastructure currently in place.

Which projects have the greatest degree of community support? ° Which projects will have the greatest impact on scientific advances across fields taking into account the importance of balance among fields for NSF’s portfolio management in the nation’s interest? Ranking projects across disciplines is inherently not an exact science; nevertheless, these criteria, as illustrated by the questions, provide a framework for a discussion of why one project is accorded a higher priority than another and a mechanism for the discussion to be as objective as possible in ranking projects across fields.

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