At the town hall meeting, the NIST director discussed the Fourmile Canyon wildfire near Boulder, Colorado and priorities to improve NIST's management, safety programs, and positioning on key policy issues. He provided details on the realignment of NIST's organizational structure and progress implementing changes. The director also discussed NIST's role in supporting innovation through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding and the President's strategy for driving sustainable growth.

1. Town Hall Meeting – Sept. 7, 2010
Patrick Gallagher
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Director

2. Boulder wildfire
Photos taken Sunday,
Sept. 6
■ Broadway St. in front
of NIST Boulder
■ View from just
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northwest of Boulder
Fourmile Canyon Fire:
■ At least 3,500 acre fire
■ 1 000 homes evacuated
1,000
■ Could take days to contain

3. Priorities
1) To improve our management systems, operations, and
leadership to allow the organization – you – to be as
effective and efficient as possible.
2) To strengthen our safety program and to actively foster a
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culture where safety is expected to be an integral part of our
work.
3) To ensure that NIST is on key policy makers’ radar screens
ens re ke polic
in discussions about and actions to address the nation’s
innovation and competitiveness needs.

4. NIST Realignment
My objectives:
■ Leadership: strengthen and stabilize the Director’s office
with a core senior career leadership team.
core, eam
■ Accountability: not about moving ‘boxes,’ but about
assigning responsibility throughout the organization.
■ Empowerment: provide resources and authority to carry
out assigned responsibilities.
■ Alignment: strengthen ties to our unique mission activities.

5. Status
Director’s office realignment ap roved 5/18/2010
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Laboratory realignment approved 7/14/2010
Effective date for transition to new line structures is Oct. 1
Director’s fi
Di t ’ office changes underway:
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Hired Chief of Staff (Kevin Kimball)
Hired AD for Management Resources (Davi Robinson)
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Hiring underway for AD for Laboratory Programs
Hiring underway for AD for Innovation & Industry Services
Hiring underway for Executive Officer for Administration

6. NIST line structure
Director
Associate Director for Laboratory
ssoc ate ecto o abo ato y Associate Director for Innovation
ssoc ate ecto o o at o Associate Director for
ssoc ate ecto o
Programs (and Principal Deputy) and Industry Services Management Resources
Material Measurement Laboratory Baldrige Performance Excellence Program Office of Facilities and Property
Management
Physical Measurement Laboratory Hollings Manufacturing Extension
Partnership Office of Financial Resource Management
Engineering Laboratory
Technology Innovation Program Office of Workforce Management
Information Technology Laboratory
Office of Information Systems
Center for Nanoscale Science and Management
Technology
Office of Safety, Health and Environment
NIST Center for Neutron Research

7. NIST Realignment
Structure of the Laboratory Programs
Standards Coordination Office Associate Director for Special Programs Office
Standards Services Division (minus Laboratory Programs Law Enforcement Standards
National Security Standards
NVLAP)
Greenhouse Gases
Smart Grid…
Material Physical Engineering Information Center for NIST Center for
Measurement Measurement Laboratory Technology Nanoscale Neutron
Laboratory Laboratory Laboratory Science and Research
Technology
Measurement NVLAP Intelligent Mathematical and
Services Weights and Systems*** Computational
Biochemical Science Measures Manufacturing Sciences
Chem/Bio Ref. Data Semiconductor Systems Integration Advanced Network
Process Electronics
Electronics** Materials and Technologies
Measurements* Optoelectronics Construction Computer Security
Surface and Quantum Electrical Research Information Access
Microanalysis Metrology Building Software and
Science Electromagnetics Environment Systems**
Thermophysical Precision Fire Research Statistical
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Properties Engineering*** Engineering
Analytical Chemistry Process
Ceramics Measurements* * Process Measurements Division is being
Materials Reliability Electron and Optical divided between MML and PML
Polymers Physics ** Electronic Information Group of
Metallurgy Atomic Physics Semiconductor Electronics Division is moving
Optical Technology to ITL’s Software and Systems Division
Ionizing Radiation *** M
Manufacturing M t l
f t i Metrology Division i being
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Time and Frequency divided between Precision Engineering
Quantum Physics Division and Intelligent Systems Division
Metrology Laboratories Technology Laboratories User Facilities

8. NIST Realignment
Structure of the Extramural Programs
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Office of Technology Partnerships Associate Director for Grants Management Office
Innovation and Industry
Economic Analysis Office Services
Baldrige Performance Hollings Manufacturing Technology Innovation
Excellence Program Extension Partnership Program

9. NIST Realignment
Structure of the Administrative Programs
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Civil Rights and Diversity Office Associate Director for Strategic Resources Office
Management Resources Project management expertise
Strategic planning expertise
Research Support Services
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Office
Information Systems Boulder Site Management Office
Information Services
Fabrication Technology
Office of Financial Office of Workforce Office of Facilities Office of Office of Safety,
Resource Management and Property Information Health and
Management Management Systems Environment
Management
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10. NIST Directorate
Executive Officer for Administration Director Chief of Staff – Kevin Kimball
(vacant) Patrick Gallagher
Program Coordination Office
Management and Organization Public and Business Affairs Office
Administrative Support Congressional and Legislative Affairs Office
International and Academic Affairs Office
Associate Director for Laboratory Associate Director for Innovation Associate Director for
Programs (and Principal Deputy) and Industry Services Management Resources
(vacant) (vacant)
David Robinson

11. Improving management
Goals:
■ Clear flow of responsibility though our management system;
■ Stronger operational responsibilities/authority to OUs;
■ Better information & communication through organization;
■ Effective services that meet program needs
Focus areas:
■ Contracts & grants
■ Plant (reimbursable work)
■ NIST-wide policy communication
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12. New safety policy statement;
Hazard review programs implemented in al OUs;
all
OU’s have largely completed initial hazard assessment process –
moving to continuous management of hazards;
Management Observation Program implemented in all OUs;
New incident reporting system (IRIS);
Active Executive Safety Committee;
Created position of Chief Safety Officer and Office of Safety,
Health, and Environment;
New OSHE staff hired;
Safety call center established (x5375)
New website: safety nist gov
safety.nist.gov

13. Safety Management - Blue Ribbon Commission II
■ Original Blue Ribbon Commission (BRC) - FACA
that met in fall of 2008
■ Issued five core findings:
1. Safety is not a core value at NIST.
2. Safety is not integrated with the conduct of operations
in a meaningful way across organizational units.
3. NIST has not benchmarked safety protocols and
performance against similar organizations with strong
safety cultures.
4. NIST is plagued by a serious lack of resources for
safety.
5. The staff is eager, willing, and ready to embrace a
safety culture.
■ Charge to BRC II: examine NIST’s progress
■ Upcoming Meetings
October 12 - Gaithersburg
October 20 - Boulder

14. Positioning NIST – 2 years ago
Context:
■ Pending transition to new Administration
■ Momentum on America COMPETES Act unknown
■ U.S. economy enters major recession
■ NIST under new requirements to improve planning
■ Recent safety incident i Boulder
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15. NIST and the President’s Innovation Strategy:
Driving Toward Sustainable Growth and Quality Jobs
• American Recovery & Reinvestment Act
• Strategy for American Innovation
• COMPETES reauthorization

16. NIST Recovery Act Funds – STRS (in millions)

17. Additional ARRA Workload
Construction of NIST facilities (in millions)
$250
ARRA
Normal
$200
$150
$157 M
$100
$10 M
$50
$76 M
$51 M $51 M
$0
FY08 FY09 FY10

18. Additional ARRA Workload
grant (in millions)
grants
$1,400
ARRA
Normal
$1 200
$1,200
$1,000
$906 M
$800
$600
$
$400
$58 M
$200 $382 M
$281 M
$242 M
$0
FY08 FY09 FY10

19. ARRA – Brings new talent to NIST
■ $22 M for a total of 161 NRC postdoctoral associates
54 postdoctoral associates (NIST employees)
44 postdoctoral associates (NIST guest researchers)
63 postdoctoral associates supported following the end of
th i t
their tenure
■ $20 M awarded to University of MD
and University of Colorado-Boulder,
Colorado-
resulting in new NIST talent
8 senior fellows
17 postdoctoral fellows
22 additional SURF students
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20. ARRA – Capital improvements for our staff SEM
NMR
Funded Equipment –
To date $66.5 M purchased
Photoelectron Spectrometer
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Additional equipment to be
awarded by Sept. 30, 2010
Bldg
Bld 304 Sh Fl
Shop Floor - Ni new
Nine
precision machine tools
BEFORE
NOW

21. 1 672 m2 SRM
1,672
warehouse addition
2,136 m2 Child Care Center
(non ARRA)
1,858 m2 Emergency
Services Facility

22. NCNR Upgrades
Net-Zero Energy Project
251 m2 residential technology test bed
1,765 m2 to the Large Fire Facility

23. Liquid Helium Recovery System
600kw solar panels on parking canopies

24. Precision Measurement Lab

25. Liquid Helium Recovery
System
Elevator R l
El t Replacement
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2nd Electrical Feed Project Auditorium Renovation

26. NIST and the President’s Innovation Strategy:
Driving Toward Sustainable Growth and Quality Jobs
• American Recovery & Reinvestment Act
• Strategy for American Innovation
• COMPETES reauthorization
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27. Positioning NIST
New WH and DOC activities with major NIST roles:
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■ Committee on Standards (NSTC)
■ Smart Grid (NSTC)
■ Forensic Science (NSTC)
■ Health Information IT Standards (HHS)
■ Innovation – commerciali
commercialization (DOC, and NSTC/NEC)
nd STC/NEC)
■ National Initiative on Cyber Education (NICE) (NSC/NSS)

28. Current and Projected Budget Growth
FY 2005-FY 2016 STRS & CRF Budget
(excludes BPEP and Congressionally Directed Projects)
1,000,000
900,000
800,000
,
Thousan of Dollars
700,000
Total STRS &
600,000 CRF Request
500,000 CRF
nds
Appropriation
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400,000 STRS
Appropriation
300,000
200,000
100,000
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Fiscal Year

29. NIST Budget
FY 2010 – FY 2011 (dollars iin millions)
(d ll illi )
FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2011 FY 2011
Enacted Request House Mark Senate Mark
1/
STRS $ 515.0 $ 584.5 $ 551.1 $ 584.5
Nat'l Meas.Standards Labs 478.1 557.5 542.2
Baldrige Nat'l Quality Prg. 3/ 9.6 9.8 9.8
Corporate Services 16.8 17.2 17.2
2/
Congressional Projects 10.5
10 0.0 15.3
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ITS $ 194.6 $ 209.6 $ 208.8 $ 199.6
Tech. Innovation Prg. 69.9 79.9 79.1 69.9
Hollings Manuf. Ext. Prg. 124.7 129.7 129.7 129.7
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CRF $ 147.0 $ 124.8 $ 123.0 $ 156.7
Const. & Major Renovations 22.0 52.3 36.2
Saf. Cap., Maint., Maj. Repairs 58.0 72.5 72.5
Competitive. Const.
Competiti Const Grant Prg. 20.0
20 0.0 0.0
Congressional Projects 47.0 0.0 48.0
Total NIST $ 856.6 $ 918.9 $ 882.9 $ 940.8
1/ House mark does not provide specific information on budget subactivities for STRS and CRF.
2/ Includes $10M to establish National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence at NIST and $5.3M of external projects.
3/ Under the NIST reorganization approved by Congress in July, Baldrige National Quality Program has been renamed to Baldrige Performance
Excellence Program and will be transferred to ITS once being appropriated.

30. Positioning NIST: Going forward
Context:
■ Well-positioned within Administration: need to execute
Well-
■ Much more constrained budget environment
■ P iti i
Positioning with our external stakeholders: i d t
ith t l t k h ld industry
■ Major themes:
■ Manufacturing
■ Standards
■ Innovation
■ Internet, especially cybersecurity

31. Thanks to NIST Staff! Training the Next Generation
■ NIST Summer Institute for Middle School Science
Teachers
■ Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF)
■ DHS - STEM Summer Internship Program
■ Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
■ Science: Get Psyched!
■ Ad
Adventures i S i
t in Science
■ Summer High School Internship Program (SHIP)
■ Everyday Chemistry for Elementary Students (Boulder)
■ Adopt a School Program
■ Professional Research Experience Program (Boulder)

32. Summer Institute: Middle School Science Teachers
■ Two-week workshop for middle
school science teachers
■ 18 teachers participated including 8
from Miami-Dade County
■ Grants supported teachers’
attendance
More than
85 NIST
volunteers
helped to
make this an
overwhelming
success.