IT looks like NIST’s Advanced Technology Program, a perennial nominee for having its budget cut or eliminated, suffered another blow. In testimony on May 26, 2005, before the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security, Robin M. Nazzaro stated that the process ATP follows to select projects for funding is flawed. ATP is designed to foot the bill for research that is too risky or too expensive for private industry to fund. But because the science behind these projects is proprietary, ATP can't use experts in that field to evaluate the proposals. It uses reviewers who are informed, but not experts, leading to flawed evaluations. So ATP ends up paying for supposedly bleeding-edge research that in reality is often already under development by private companies. Ouch.
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