Computer Science

Major Award Decisionmaking at the National Science Foundation

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During the past decade, NSF has established Engineering Research Centers, Supercomputer Centers, Science and Technology Centers, and other large research centers and facilities. A few awards were controversial, and called into question NSF policies and procedures for making large award decisions. Some of those involving the location of one-of-a-kind national facilities have generated the sharpest questions about selection procedures. Decisions by the National Science Board (NSB) and the NSF to devote substantial resources to some new center programs and very expensive facilities have also raised questions about the adequacy of their planning procedures. The congressional conference report on FY 1991 appropriations for NSF requested a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) study of the criteria weighed in making major awards and an assessment of the roles of outside experts and agency staff in the merit review decisionmaking process at NSF. The NAS agreed to undertake the project because of the importance of merit review for making major research awards. The study was assigned to the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), which is chartered by the NAS, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine to address important questions that cut across all areas of science and engineering.

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: ., 1994

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1-175

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English

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0-309-58632-1

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Major Award Decisionmaking at the National Science

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