Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.
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Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.
GRRA PERFORMANCE REPORT FY 2000MARCH 200!Enabling the Nation's future through discovery, learning and innovation.Realizing the promise of the 21st cen Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.ntury DEPENDS IN LARGE MEASURE ON today's INVESTMENTSIN SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION.NSF INVESTMENTS - IN PEOPLE, IN THEIR IDEAS, AND IN THE TOOLS THEY USE - WILL CATALYZE THE STRONG PROGRESS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING NEEDED TO SECURE THE Nation’s future.NSF is a Sour Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.ce of Human CapitalFOR People who win Nobel Prizes-And who become Teachers, And CEOs, and Politicians.We foster and encourage creative thinking; we SEEnabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.
LECT FOR EXCELLENCE; AND WE FUND THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST BASED ON MERIT. We all BENEFIT-AND THE American people most of all.Rita Colwell, Director,GRRA PERFORMANCE REPORT FY 2000MARCH 200!Enabling the Nation's future through discovery, learning and innovation.Realizing the promise of the 21st cen Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.red by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). Here you will learn about NSF's progress in meeting a broad range of challenging goals that aim to improve our ability to invest in the nation's future.The year 2000 marked NSF's 50™ Anniversary. During this half century, knowledge ab Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.out the world has exploded and the pace of scientific discovery and technological innovation has accelerated unabatedly. By spurring innovation, advanEnabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.
ces in science and engineering knowledge lay the foundation for new jobs and fuel economic growth, raising U.S. living standards and improving the quaGRRA PERFORMANCE REPORT FY 2000MARCH 200!Enabling the Nation's future through discovery, learning and innovation.Realizing the promise of the 21st cen Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.the forefront of these developments. They have brought US advances in biomedicine, new modes of communication, and led to improvements in public safety, agriculture, and industry. They have enabled the U.S. to sustain a half-century of world leadership in science, engineering and technology.Just con Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.sider the following achievements highlighted in the report:•New evidence of life in extreme environments.•The Boomerang project, which brought new insEnabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.
ights into the “geometry" of the universe.•New nanowires: self assembling structures that hold the potential to increase the capacity of computer memoGRRA PERFORMANCE REPORT FY 2000MARCH 200!Enabling the Nation's future through discovery, learning and innovation.Realizing the promise of the 21st cen Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.h investments in educational systemic reform.It is also noteworthy that of the 11 Nobel laureates announced in 2000, six have been supported by NSF.NSF's mission is to strengthen the nation’s capabilities across the entire spectrum of research and education in the sciences, engineering, and mathemat Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.ics. Each year the Foundation invests in the creative people, the innovative ideas, and the cutting-edge technologies that will have thehighest returnEnabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.
s in advancing discovery at the frontiers of knowledge. It works to promote science, engineering, and mathematics learning - from pre-school through pGRRA PERFORMANCE REPORT FY 2000MARCH 200!Enabling the Nation's future through discovery, learning and innovation.Realizing the promise of the 21st cen Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation. of fundamental research are often realized only years later as they are transformed into the products and social benefits that improve our lives, NSF faces unique challenges in measuring and evaluating performance. NSF has developed an evaluation process that reflects these challenges. Each year, N Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.SF uses the GPRA review process as an opportunity to improve and refine the way it measures and rates its success.In conducting its FY 2000 performancEnabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.
e review, NSF raised the bar on performance. We increased the stringency of evaluation criteria, set goals that were significantly beyond past performGRRA PERFORMANCE REPORT FY 2000MARCH 200!Enabling the Nation's future through discovery, learning and innovation.Realizing the promise of the 21st cen Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.tion staff, about 400 external evaluators participated in the performance assessment, and generated 64 reports covering 78 of the NSF's 200 programs.Using these high standards, NSF met two-thirds of its 28 revised goals. The agency met six of its eight goals relating directly to the results of resea Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.rch and education, and outside evaluators noted progress toward realizing the other two. Among the management and investment process goals that were nEnabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.
ot met, NSF achieved substantial improvements in many areas. Examples are increased capacity to process proposals electronically, and an increase in tGRRA PERFORMANCE REPORT FY 2000MARCH 200!Enabling the Nation's future through discovery, learning and innovation.Realizing the promise of the 21st cen Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.ults that were actually lower than in FY1999, despite the fact that outside evaluators cited progress in those areas. One goal not met in FY 2000 - NSF’s successful implementation of the new merit review criteria - is the result of the establishment of two new merit review criteria in FY 1998. For t Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.his performance report, the baseline for the agency's evaluation (a period of three years) includes one fiscal year of merit review that did not incorEnabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.
porate the new criteria.NSF's FY 2000 Report describes in detail the criteria NSF uses to assure the credibility of the data used to verify and validaGRRA PERFORMANCE REPORT FY 2000MARCH 200!Enabling the Nation's future through discovery, learning and innovation.Realizing the promise of the 21st cen Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation. is our aim at NSF to adhere to the highest standards of management efficiency and integrity, and to produce outcomes of substantial benefit tothe nation. I am therefore pleased to report that the data measuring NSF’s performance that are contained in this report are complete and reliable.Sincerely, Enabling the Nation’s future through discovery, learning and innovation.Rita R. Colwell DirectorGRRA PERFORMANCE REPORT FY 2000MARCH 200!Enabling the Nation's future through discovery, learning and innovation.Realizing the promise of the 21st cenGRRA PERFORMANCE REPORT FY 2000MARCH 200!Enabling the Nation's future through discovery, learning and innovation.Realizing the promise of the 21st cenGọi ngay
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