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A Review of Reports on Selected Large Federal Science Facilities
Management and Life-Cycle Issues
The federal government operates several large-scale research facilities that enable scientific inquiry in a range of fields, including physics, material sciences, astronomy, and, increasingly, the life sciences. This study was designed to help the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) address the issues surrounding the planning, operation, and management of selected large scientific facilities and to identify key areas in need of oversight or coordination by OSTP. A research team in RAND's Science and Technology Policy Institute reviewed 20 documented studies of major science facilities or guides for their operation and drew conclusions based on the findings and recommendations of the expert panels that produced the reviewed documents. The information presented here represents the research team's synthesis of those documents. The authors identify lessons that would be of value to the federal government as it builds, manages, and retires large scientific facilities.
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Pages: 182
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Contents
Summary PDF
All Prefatory Materials PDF
Chapter One:
Introduction PDF
Chapter Two:
Synthesis of the Reviewed Documents' Findings and Recommendations PDF
Part I: General Management Guidelines and Reports
Chapter Three:
Department of Energy: Opportunity to Improve Management of Major System Acquisitions PDF
Chapter Four:
Facility Project Implementation Handbook PDF
Chapter Five:
Cooperative Stewardship: Managing the Nation's Multidisciplinary User Facilities for Research with Synchrotron Radiation, Neutrons, and High Magnetic Fields PDF
Chapter Six:
Characteristics of Successful Megaprojects PDF
Chapter Seven:
Science and Engineering Infrastructure for the 21st Century: The Role of the National Science Foundation PDF
Chapter Eight:
National Science Foundation Facilities Management and Oversight Guide PDF
Part II: Reports on Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Hubble Space Telescope
Chapter Nine:
The Decade of Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics PDF
Chapter Ten:
HST and Beyond-Exploration and the Search for Origins: A Vision for Ultraviolet-Opticalinfrared Space Astronomy PDF
Chapter Eleven:
Hubble Second Decade Committee: The Hubble Data Archive and the Hubble Treasury Program PDF
Part III: Reports on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory
Chapter Twelve:
Reports on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory PDF
Part IV: Reports on Neutron Scatters
Chapter Thirteen:
Neutron Sources for America's Future PDF
Chapter Fourteen:
Report of the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee on Neutron Source Facility Upgrades and the Technical Specifications for the Spallation Neutron Source PDF
Chapter Fifteen:
High Flux Isotope Reactor Upgrade and User Program-Oak Ridge National Laboratory PDF
Chapter Sixteen:
Report on the Status and Needs of Major Neutron Scattering Facilities and Instruments in the United States PDF
Part V: Reports on Synchrotron Light Sources
Chapter Seventeen:
Major Facilities for Materials Research and Related Disciplines PDF
Chapter Eighteen:
Report of the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee Panel on Doe Synchrotron Radiation Sources and Science PDF
Chapter Nineteen:
Synchrotron Radiation for Macromolecular Crystallography PDF
Chapter Twenty:
Biological Applications of Synchrotron Radiation: An Evaluation of the State of the Field in 2002 PDF
Supplementary Materials PDF
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