Director’s Update

Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology

February 6-7, 2013

Dr. Patrick Gallagher

Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and 

NIST Director
Total Recordable Case (TRC) rates for FY2008 – FY2012

TRC and DART Rate Peer Comparisons

2
Injury Data for FY 2012 and FY 2013 Q1

Laboratory Programs (LP)

 49% of injury incidents

 32% of OSHA recordables

Management Resources (MR)

 46% of injury incidents

 65% of OSHA recordables

OUs with atleast one injury report in IRIS

Number of 

"injury" incidents 

reported in IRIS

Number of "injury" 

incidents reported in IRIS 

which are OSHA recordables

% of "injury" incidents 

reported in IRIS which are 

OSHA recordables

% of all OSHA 

recordables by the 

OU

00 - DO 2 1 50% 3%

13 - MR 3 3 100% 9%

15 - OSHE 4 1 25% 3%

16 - OFRM 2 1 50% 3%

17 - OWM 3 1 33% 3%

18 - OISM 1 0 0% 0%

19 - OFPM 32 16 50% 47%

48 - HMEPP 2 0 0% 0%

60 - LP 1 1 100% 3%

61 - NCNR 11 3 27% 9%

62 - CNST 1 0 0% 0%

63 - MML 12 2 17% 6%

68 - PML 11 3 27% 9%

73 - EL 8 0 0% 0%

77 - ITL 4 2 50% 6%

Totals 97 34 35%
Welcome to New VCAT Member

• Joined McDonnell Douglas in 1981

• Previous positions include VP of Engineering and Mission Assurance 

for Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, and VP of Structural 

Technologies, Prototyping, and Quality for the Boeing Phantom 

Works advanced R&D unit

• Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 

and past chair of ASME’s Aerospace Division

• Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

• Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society

John J. Tracy 

Chief Technology Officer 

The Boeing Company 

Senior Vice President 

Engineering, Operations & Technology

Credit: Boeing
THANK YOU to Departing VCAT Members

Shaygan Kheradpir

Term: April 1, 2010–March 31, 2013

• Member of the VCAT Subcommittee on Public Safety Networks, 2011

• Continued VCAT service when he moved to the UK in Dec. 2010

Vinton Cerf

Term: Feb. 1, 2007–March 31, 2013

• VCAT Chair: March 5, 2010–March 31, 2013

• VCAT Vice Chair: Feb. 6, 2008–March 4, 2010

• Member of the VCAT Subcommittee on Safety, 2012–2013

• Chair of the VCAT Subcommittee on Public Safety Networks, 2011

• Member of VCAT Subcommittee on Information Technology, 2007

Credit: NIST

Credit: Google/

Weinberg-Clark

Organization

Former Standards 

Coordination Office 

Director, Mary 

Saunders,

Associate Director 

for Management 

Resources

Executive Officer for Administration

Management and Organization 

Administrative Support

Director 

Under Secretary of Commerce for 

Standards and Technology 

Patrick Gallagher

Chief of Staff

Program Coordination

Public and Business Affairs

Congressional and Legislative Affairs

International and Academic Affairs

Associate Director for 

Laboratory 

Programs/Principal Deputy

Willie E. May

Staff Offices

Standards Coordination

Reimbursable Agreements 

Coordination Office

Special Programs

Associate Director for 

Innovation and 

Industry Services

Phillip Singerman

Staff Offices

Technology 

Partnerships

Economic Analysis

Grants Management

Material Measurement 

Laboratory

Laurie Locascio

Physical Measurement 

Laboratory

Jim Olthoff, Acting

Engineering Laboratory

Shyam Sunder

Information Technology 

Laboratory

Chuck Romine

Center for Nanoscale 

Science and Technology

Robert Celotta

NIST Center for Neutron 

Research

Robert Dimeo

Associate Director for 

Management Resources

Mary Saunders

Staff Offices

Boulder Site Management 

Civil Rights and Diversity

Research Support 

Services

Strategic Resources

Baldrige Performance 

Excellence Program

Harry Hertz

Hollings Manufacturing 

Extension Partnership

Roger Kilmer

Office of Facilities and 

Property Management

Steve Salber, Acting

Office of Financial 

Resource Management

George Jenkins

Office of Workforce 

Management

Susanne Porch

Office of Information 

Systems Management

Del Brockett

Office of Safety, Health 

and Environment

Richard Kayser

Former National 

Coordinator of 

Smart Grid 

Interoperability 

Program, George 

Arnold, Standards 

Coordination Office 

Director
Budget Update

• Currently on a Continuing Resolution 

through March 27 FY 2013 Request

FY 2014 Request • Submission pending

FY 2015 Request • Internal planning processes begun
OMB Guidance on Sequestration

• Use available flexibility to reduce operational risks/minimize impacts on the agency's 

core mission in service of the American people;

• Review grants/contracts to determine where cost savings may be achieved in a 

manner that is consistent with the applicable terms and conditions;

• Operational challenges that could potentially have a significant deleterious effect on 

the agency's mission or otherwise raise life, safety, or health concerns;

• Take into account funding flexibilities, including the availability of reprogramming and 

transfer authority;

• Identify the most appropriate means to reduce civilian workforce costs where 

necessary; may include:

• imposing hiring freezes,

• releasing temporary employees or not renewing term or contract hires,

• authorizing voluntary separation incentives and voluntary early retirements, and

• implementing administrative furloughs
Planning Framework

Planning framework has three 

perspectives:

• Long-term evolution and 

capacity building

• Alignment with critical needs

• Internal goals and process 

improvements

• Each perspective is defined by 

different planning processes and 

interactions with different 

stakeholders

• Objective is to support strategic 

decision-making.
Program Planning

How does our mission contribute to 

national priorities?

• relevance

• impact

Examples:

• Cybersecurity;

• Advanced Manufacturing; 

• Nanotechnology Safety, 

Environment, Health;

• First responder communications;

• Smart Grid
Capacity Planning

What capabilities does NIST need in 

order to carry out its mission 

effectively?

• Positioning

• Science & technology drivers

Examples:

• Biology and biotechnology;

• Systems engineering;

• Quantum-based measurement;

• IT and Communication, IT and 

control convergences
Internal Improvement Planning

What processes do we have to 

improve to make us more 

effective at our mission?

• Continuous improvement

• Key barriers/opportunities

Examples:

• Safety; 

• “Business of NIST” (those 

activities involving management 

of money)

• Acquisition

• Agreements

• Grants
• Center is undertaking carefully developed use cases 

to resolve cybersecurity challenges through teams of 

public and private sector experts.

• Federal Register Notice for partners for first use case 

(Health IT) published in January

• Second use case FRN planned for end of March. 

• Signing National Cybersecurity Excellence Partners 

(NCEP) in progress. Intel has signed, five other major 

IT vendors are in the final stages of review.

• In process of setting up FFRDC as governance 

structure. Due to procurement cycle, contract likely 

won’t be let until FY14.

• In collaboration with Intel and EMC/RSA, the NCCoE

built a demonstration of trusted geolocation in the 

cloud. In conjunction with the NIST cloud conference, 

the NCCoE hosted a workshop and presentation 

attended by >70 industry, academia, and government 

participants on the trusted geolocation architecture.

Program Update: National Cybersecurity Center of 

Excellence (NCCoE)
• Starting January 1st, Smart Grid Interoperability 

Panel (SGIP) became fully private entity referred to 

as “SGIP 2.0”

• Smart Grid Interop 2012 

• Last board meeting of SGIP 1.0, first of SGIP 2.0

• NIST and SGIP 2.0 Inc signed MoU

• Smart Grid Federal Advisory Committee met in 

December, plan to provide input on research 

portfolio

• NIST announced FFO for Smart Grid 

Interoperability Standards Cooperative Agreement 

Program, for $750k FY13 and $1,000k FY14-15, 

expects to sign Cooperative Agreement in March

• George Arnold will remain principal NIST 

representative to SGIP and member of its Board of 

Directors throughout 2013

Program Update: Smart Grid
• On August 20, 2012 the Department of Commerce 

announced the FirstNet Board of Directors

• FirstNet is responsible for the design, deployment, and 

operation of a nationwide public safety broadband 

network

• NIST and NTIA, through the PSCR in Boulder, CO is 

providing technical expertise to FirstNet in the following 

areas:

• Requirements Gathering

• Network Launch Requirements

• Standards Development

• First responder-specific needs for LTE technology

• Research, Development, Testing, & Evaluation

• 700 MHz Public Safety Broadband Demonstration Network

• Network Modeling & Simulation

• Nationwide network modeling

Program Update: Public Safety Communications
Program Update: Advanced Communications

Planned Center for Advanced 

Communications

• OU level organization HQ in 

Boulder

• Partnership with NTIA -- Critical 

Mass or R&D with Testing 

Engineering capability

• Focal point for Firstnet R&D

• Focal point for engagement 

with Industry and Government

• Discussions underway with 

DOD to coordinate Federal 

spectrum testing needs and 

access to existing test-range 

capabilities 

Center for 

Advanced 

Communications

Public Safety

Spectrum Sharing

Test Bed 

Coordination

Center Roles

• Stakeholder 

Engagement 

• Planning and 

Out Reach 

• Program 

Management 

and Oversight
Program Update: The National Network for Manufacturing Innovation

January 16, 2013 Blueprint for Action: Workshop 

on the Design of the National Network for 

Manufacturing Innovation in Huntsville, AL 

• NASA and DOD sponsored event

• Over 350 participants, majority were industry 

leaders

• Public release of NSTC Report National Network 

for Manufacturing Innovation: A Preliminary 

Design

• Presents an overview of the program, drafted by 

interagency team led by the AMNPO

• Based on input from 4 workshops and Request 

for Information – nearly 900 stakeholders in total 

Planned: Washington DC Blueprint for Action workshop, 

hosted at the National Academy of Sciences
New Issue: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)

• Hybrid networked cyber and engineered physical 

elements co-designed to create adaptive and 

predictive systems

• Standards for interoperability, cybersecurity, and 

data-centric analytics could enable integrated CPS 

platform architectures

• Common CPS platform “stack” characteristics:

• Sensing and Control layer: distributed real-time 

feedback loops

• Network layer: multiple topologies, functional 

relationships, scales

• Data layer: big data and cloud-based

• CPS form core of related initiatives: Industrial 

Internet, Smarter Planet, Smart Systems, Machine to 

Machine, and Internet of Things.

• NIST held executive roundtable on potential R&D 

opportunities for CPS, produced report in Jan 2012
Awards

NIST Fellow Deborah Jin has been awarded the 

2013 L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in 

Science, representing North America.

This award, established in 1998, is selected by 

an international jury, with winners selected for 

each of five geographic regions.

Deborah Jin

Credit: University of Colorado Boulder

In addition, NIST Senior Advisor on Cybersecurity Policy Jon Boyens, NIST Senior 

Executive Advisor for Identity Management Jeremy Grant, and NIST Senior 

Information Technology Policy Advisor Adam Sedgwick won the 2012 Fed 100.

The Federal 100 Awards recognize government and industry leaders who have played 

pivotal roles in the federal government IT. 
Day 1

• Call to Order, Announcements, VCAT Elections

 Vinton Cerf, VCAT Chair

• Agenda Review and NIST Update

 Pat Gallagher, Under Secretary of Commerce for Science and Technology and NIST Director

• Example of the NIST Role in International Metrology

• International Metrology and the Redefinition of the Kilogram

 James Olthoff, Acting Director, Physical Measurement Laboratory

• Laboratory Tour – from Mass Standards to the Electronic Kilogram: A Redefinition of the Metric System

 Carl Williams, Chief, Quantum Measurement Division, Physical Measurement Laboratory

• Panel and Discussion on the Evolution of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP): The New Strategy

• MEP Program Perspective

 Roger Kilmer, Director, MEP

• MEP Center Perspective

 Michael Coast, President and CEO, Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center 

• MEP Advisory Board Perspective

 Mark Rice, President, Maritime Applied Physics Corporation and Former Chair, MEP Advisory Board

• Baldrige Performance Excellence Program Transition from Federal Funding

Harry Hertz, Director, Baldrige Performance Excellence Program

VCAT Meeting Agenda Review 
VCAT Meeting Agenda Review 

Day 2

• Safety

• NIST Safety Metrics

 Richard Kayser, Chief Safety Officer

• VCAT Subcommittee on Safety Recommendations and VCAT Deliberations

 Tony Haymet, Chair, VCAT Subcommittee on Safety

• VCAT Recommendations and 2013 Charge

• Presentation of Initial Observations, Findings, and Recommendations for 2012 VCAT Annual Report to the NIST 

Director

 Vint Cerf, VCAT Chair

• Set VCAT Charge for 2013

 Patrick Gallagher, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director