The National Laboratories

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Are you interested in the future of the National Labs? Here are some documents on the web that have discussed this topic and its context:

  • Department of Energy: Uncertain Progress in Implementing National Laboratory Reforms (GAO/RCED-98-197)(1.1M PDF file)
  • Best Practices: Elements Critical to Successfully Reducing Unneeded RDT&E Infrastructure (GAO) (January 1998)(Click on NSIAD/RCED-98-23; this is in PDF format)
  • Federal Energy Research and Development for the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century (PCAST) (November 1997)
  • Restructuring the DOE and Its Laboratories: Issues in the 105th Congress (Congressional Research Service Brief)(Updated October 1997)
  • Science and Technology Shaping the Twenty-First Century (OSTP) (April 1997)
  • Status of Federal Laboratory Reforms (NSTC)(March 1997)
  • Restructuring DOE and its Laboratories: Issues in the 105th Congress (CRS)(March 1997)
  • Science and Technology and the President: A Report to the Next Administration (Carnegie Commission) (January 1997)
  • Congressional Testimony of Charles B. Curtis, Deputy Secretary, DOE (September 1996)
  • The Galvin report - Task Force on Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy National Laboratories (1995)
  • S. S. Hecker document - Nuclear Weapons Stewardship in the Post-cold War Era: Governance and Contractual Relationships (LANL)(April 1997)
  • Federal Environmental Research and Development: Status Report with Recommendations (Carnegie Commission)(1997)
  • Congressional Testimony of C. Paul Robinson, Director Sandia National Laboratories (September 1996)
  • Vision 21: The Plan for 21st Century Laboratories and Test and Evaluation Centers of the Department of Defense (1996)
  • Statement by the President: Future of Major Federal Laboratories (1995)
  • Science in the National Interest (OSTP) (1993)
  • DOE R&D Strategic Plan - Support for Objectives (1997)
  • Science, Technology, and the Federal Government: National Goals for a New Era (NAS)(1993)
  • Science, Technology and Government for a Changing World (Carnegie Commission)(1993)
  • Science the Endless Frontier (The Vannevar Bush report)(1945)

    Further materials relating to the uses and future of the National Labs are in preparation to appear at this site, including a start on a bibliography.

    Perhaps you might also wish to visit the science policy and science and society web pages for related information.

    This page is under construction - updated 18 April 2001

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