Performance Area
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FY 1999 Annual Performance Goal
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Proposal and Award Processes
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Use of Merit Review
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Goal 6
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At least 90 percent of NSF funds will be allocated to projects
reviewed by appropriate peers external to NSF and selected through
a merit-based competitive process. FY 98 Baseline: 90%. FY 1999
Goal: 90%.
FY 1999 Result: This goal was achieved.
95% of projects allocated funds in FY 1999 were merit reviewed.
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Implementation of Merit Review Criteria
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Goal 7
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NSF performance in implementation of the new merit review criteria
is successful when reviewers address the elements of both generic
review criteria appropriate to the proposal at hand and when program
officers take the information provided into account in their decisions
on awards; minimally effective when reviewers consistently use only
a few of the suggested elements of the generic review criteria although
others might be applicable.
FY 1999 Result: Largely successful, needs improvement.
In FY 1999, a total of 44 reports by external experts rated NSF
on their use of the new merit review criteria. NSF was rated successful
in achieving this goal by 36 of those reports.
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Customer service --Time to prepare proposals
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Goal 8
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95% of program announcements and solicitations will be available
at least three months prior to proposal deadlines or target dates
improving upon the FY 1998 baseline of 66%.
FY 1999 Result: This goal was not achieved; 75% of
program announcements and solicitations were available at least
three months prior to proposal deadlines or target dates.
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Customer service --Time to decision
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Goal 9
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Process 70% of proposals within six months of receipt improving
upon the FY 1998 baseline of 59%.
FY 1999 Result: This goal was not achieved; 58% or
proposals were processed within six months of receipt.
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Award Duration
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Goal 10
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Increase average duration of awards for research projects from
a FY 1998 base of 2.7 years to at least 2.8 years.
FY 1999 Result: This goal was achieved.
This goal will be replaced in FY 2000 with a goal on customer service.
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Maintaining Openness in the System
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Goal 11
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NSF will increase the percentage of competitive research grants
going to new investigators to at least 30%, 3% over a baseline of
27 %.
FY 1999 Result: This goal was not achieved; 27% of
competitive research grants were made to new investigators.
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Emerging Opportunities
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Identifying emerging Opportunities
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Goal 12
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All directorates within NSF will establish Web sites for the science
and engineering community to provide suggestions for and comment
upon emerging opportunities.
FY 1999 Result: This goal was achieved. Web sites
for providing suggestions and comments on emerging opportunities
were established by all directorates at NSF in FY 1999.
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Integration of Research and Education
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Encouraging integration of research and education
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Goal 13
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NSF will ensure that all of its new announcements of opportunities
and proposal solicitations will contain an explicit statement encouraging
proposers to integrate research activities with improving education
or public understanding of science.
FY 1999 Result: This goal was achieved.
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Diversity
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Encouraging attention to diversity in all aspects of NSF programming
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Goal 14
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NSF will ensure that all of its new announcements of opportunities
and proposed solicitations will include a statement encouraging
proposers to address improving the participation of underrepresented
groups in science and engineering in the course of their research
and education activities.
FY 1999 Result: This goal was achieved.
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Facilities Oversight
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Construction and upgrade
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Goal 15.a
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Keep construction and upgrades within annual expenditure plan,
not to exceed 110 percent of estimates.
FY 1999 Result: This goal was achieved.
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Goal 15.b
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Keep construction and upgrades within annual schedule; total time
required for major components of the project not to exceed 110 percent
of estimates.
FY 1999 Result: This goal was achieved.
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Goal 15.c
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For all construction and upgrade project initiated after 1996,
keep total cost within 110 percent of estimates made at the initiation
of construction.
FY 1999 Result: This goal was not applicable in FY 1999.
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Operations
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Goal 15.d
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Keep operating time lost due to unscheduled downtime to less than
10 percent of the total scheduled possible operating time.
FY 1999 Result: The results were inconclusive. The
data base was under development in FY 1999 and requires further
evaluation.
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