At the request of the NIST Office of Facilities and Property Management, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine shall convene an ad hoc study committee that shall investigate the following (4) focus areas:

(1) identifying the NIST facilities and utilities infrastructure in greatest need of recapitalization, of repair, and of those most impacting the research mission’s implementation;

(2) assessing the composition of individual capital and repair projects to bring the NIST Gaithersburg, MD and Boulder, CO campuses’ research and support facilities and utilities infrastructure up to current standards of acceptable operational performance to meet their assigned mission objectives;

(3) evaluating at a high level the completeness, accuracy, and relevance of cost estimates (already developed by/for NIST) for proposed individual capital and repair projects; and

(4) identifying potential factors and approaches that NIST should consider in developing a comprehensive capital strategy for its two campuses’ portfolio of facilities and utilities infrastructure.

The study shall consider and identify approaches based on five (5), ten (10), fifteen (15), and twenty (20) year prioritization outlooks.

In addition, to better inform capital facility planning and operational sustainment of NIST's two campuses, the ad hoc study committee shall review comparable available facility condition methodologies and metrics of other historically designated federal agencies at an overall portfolio level, and provide recommendations in determining the minimum levels of funding (two components – for individual building and utility infrastructure capitalization/re-capitalization and for the campuses’ overall annual operations/maintenance/repair (OMR) needs) required to sustain NIST's assets at an overall portfolio level.