Cover: A Review of Reports on Selected Large Federal Science Facilities

A Review of Reports on Selected Large Federal Science Facilities

Management and Life-Cycle Issues

by Aaron Kofner, Parry Norling, Gabrielle Bloom, David M. Adamson, Megan Abbott, Mark Y.D. Wang

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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.

Table of Contents

  • Summary

  • Preface

    All Prefatory Materials

  • Chapter One

    Introduction

  • Chapter Two

    Synthesis of the Reviewed Documents' Findings and Recommendations

  • Part I

    General Management Guidelines and Reports

  • Chapter Three

    Department of Energy: Opportunity to Improve Management of Major System Acquisitions

  • Chapter Four

    Facility Project Implementation Handbook

  • Chapter Five

    Cooperative Stewardship: Managing the Nation's Multidisciplinary User Facilities for Research with Synchrotron Radiation, Neutrons, and High Magnetic Fields

  • Chapter Six

    Characteristics of Successful Megaprojects

  • Chapter Seven

    Science and Engineering Infrastructure for the 21st Century: The Role of the National Science Foundation

  • Chapter Eight

    National Science Foundation Facilities Management and Oversight Guide

  • Part II

    Reports on Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Hubble Space Telescope

  • Chapter Nine

    The Decade of Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics

  • Chapter Ten

    HST and Beyond-Exploration and the Search for Origins: A Vision for Ultraviolet-Opticalinfrared Space Astronomy

  • Chapter Eleven

    Hubble Second Decade Committee: The Hubble Data Archive and the Hubble Treasury Program

  • Part III

    Reports on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory

  • Chapter Twelve

    Reports on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

  • Part IV

    Reports on Neutron Scatters

  • Chapter Thirteen

    Neutron Sources for America's Future

  • Chapter Fourteen

    Report of the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee on Neutron Source Facility Upgrades and the Technical Specifications for the Spallation Neutron Source

  • Chapter Fifteen

    High Flux Isotope Reactor Upgrade and User Program-Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Chapter Sixteen

    Report on the Status and Needs of Major Neutron Scattering Facilities and Instruments in the United States

  • Part V

    Reports on Synchrotron Light Sources

  • Chapter Seventeen

    Major Facilities for Materials Research and Related Disciplines

  • Chapter Eighteen

    Report of the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee Panel on Doe Synchrotron Radiation Sources and Science

  • Chapter Nineteen

    Synchrotron Radiation for Macromolecular Crystallography

  • Chapter Twenty

    Biological Applications of Synchrotron Radiation: An Evaluation of the State of the Field in 2002

  • Supplemental

    Supplementary Materials

The research described in this report was conducted by RAND's Science and Technology Policy Institute for the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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