[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 119 (Friday, June 20, 2014)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-14392]



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OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY


Materials Genome Initiative Strategic Plan

ACTION: Notice for Public Comment.

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SUMMARY: The National Science and Technology Council's Committee on 
Technology, Subcommittee on the Materials Genome Initiative requests 
public comments on the draft 2014 Materials Genome Initiative Strategic 
Plan (http://www.nist.gov/mgi/upload/MGI-StrategicPlan-2014.pdf).

DATES: Responses must be received by July 21, 2014 to be considered.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
     Email: [email protected]. Include [MGI Strategic 
Plan--Public Comment] in the subject line of the message.
     Fax: (202) 456-6027, Attn: Meredith Drosback.
     Mail: Attn: Meredith Drosback, Office of Science and 
Technology Policy, Eisenhower Executive Office Building, 1650 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20504.
    Instructions: Response to this request for public comment is 
voluntary. Responses exceeding 500 words will not be considered; please 
reference page and line numbers in your response, as appropriate. 
Please be aware that your comments may be posted online. OSTP therefore 
requests that no business proprietary information, copyrighted 
information, confidential, or personally identifiable information be 
submitted in response to this request. Please note that the U.S. 
Government will not pay for response preparation, or for the use of any 
information contained in the response.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Meredith Drosback, (202) 456-4444, 
[email protected], OSTP.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In June 2011, President Obama launched the 
Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) to help scientists and innovators 
discover, develop, and deploy new materials twice as fast as today. 
What began with a modest investment by four Federal agencies only three 
years ago has now expanded to include participation by a wide range of 
public and private stakeholders, including universities, companies, 
professional scientific societies, and Federal agencies.
    At the Federal level, MGI is managed within the framework of the 
National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), the Cabinet-level 
council that coordinates science and technology across the Federal 
government. The Subcommittee on the Materials Genome Initiative (SMGI), 
under the NSTC Committee on Technology, coordinates Federal efforts in 
support of the goals of MGI and identifies policies that will 
accelerate deployment of advanced materials. The SMGI includes 
representatives from each agency participating in MGI.
    The SMGI developed this strategic plan to outline the near-term 
steps the Federal government will take to achieve the vision put forth 
by MGI. It defines the high-level goals and priorities for the 
Initiative by describing each of four strategic goals and the 
objectives and near-term milestones needed to meet these goals. This 
strategic plan also describes scientific and technical challenges 
identified by experts from the materials science and engineering 
communities that impede progress in nine materials classes and that MGI 
can help address. This input came through two Grand Challenge Summits 
held in 2013 for stakeholders from academia and industry (details 
available online at http://www.ibbr.umd.edu/NISTMGISummit). The 
experimental and computational tools and scientific cultural evolution 
emerging from MGI can be directly applied to overcoming these 
scientific and technical challenges, and others that will emerge in the 
future, to meet the President's directive for more rapid discovery and 
deployment of advanced materials. The SMGI is seeking public comment on 
this strategic plan (available at http://www.nist.gov/mgi/upload/MGI-StrategicPlan-2014.pdf) in advance of finalizing the document for 
publication.

Ted Wackler,
Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant Director.
[FR Doc. 2014-14392 Filed 6-19-14; 8:45 am]
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