Business Automation Platform (BAP) Science and Technology Award Application (STAA) User Guide Version 1.2


Business Intelligence &
Analytics Center

Business Automation Platform (BAP)
Science and Technology Award Application (STAA)

User Guide

Version 1.2

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Digital Services and Technical Architecture

Digital Services Division

Business Intelligence & Analytics Center

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Table of Contents

About the Scientific and Technological Achievement Award (STAA)	3

EPA's Business Automation Platform	3

Requesting Access to the BAP	3

Logging in to the BAP	4

First-Time Login	4

After First-Time Login	4

EPA login screen	5

Login with Username and Password	5

Salesforce Home Page	7

Current Application	7

Global Search	7

Tabs	8

App Launcher (Waffle)	9

Items to Approve	9

Recent Records	9

Introduction to the STAA Application	10

Cover Forms	11

Creating a New Award Application	11

Approving Forms	21

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About the Scientific and Technological Achievement Award (STAA)

The EPA's Science and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA) program promotes and recognizes scientific and
technological achievement by EPA employees. STAA is among the most prestigious of EPA's scientific awards programs.

The STAA program is an agency-wide competition sponsored by the Office of Research and Development (ORD) that
recognizes outstanding scientific and technological papers published by EPA employees. Each year since 1980, EPA
scientists and engineers have submitted their publications to be evaluated by a panel convened by EPAs Science
Advisory Board (SAB). The SAB convenes an experienced group of scientists and engineers who review and evaluate the
nominations. The SAB review panel then produces a set of recommendations used to select the actual awards.

The STAA application on the Agency's Business Automation Platform (BAP) is designed to create and track nominations
for publications.

EPA's Business Automation Platform

In 2017 the Office of Environmental Information (OEI) established the Agency's BAP based on the Force.com platform
from Salesforce, an industry-leading application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) provider. The BAP supports all EPA Offices
and Regions by supporting development and hosting of applications for business processes, data collection, reporting,
and workflow automation.

The BAP allows development and deployment of forms, workflow automation, and reports in a declarative environment,
i.e., without writing programming code. This saves the Agency time and money. It also lets application owners and
developers avoid getting bogged down in infrastructure provision and management, as Salesforce handles that for
them. The BAP helps you build your application with modern frameworks that handle security, user access, user
interface, reporting, etc. All you have to do is concentrate on your business logic.

For more information, visit the BAP Community SharePoint. If you have any specific questions, email bap-
request (Sepa.gov.

Requesting Access to the BAP

To use STAA, you will need a BAP account. If you already have a BAP account, you may skip this section and proceed to
the Logging in to the BAP section.

If you do not have a BAP account, you will need to fill out a BAP User Provisioning Form. Instructions for filling out this
form can be found in the BAP User Provisioning Guide at this URL:

https://usepa.sharepoint.com/sites/oei Communitv/BAP/Shared%20Documents/BAP-User-Provisioning-Guide.pdf
On this form:

1. Select "Permission Set" in the Form Type field.

2. Select "Application" in the Role field.

3. Type "STAA" in the Related Application Name field.

4. Select "STAA Application Access" in the Permission Set Name field.

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Logging in to the BAP

Please follow the steps below for accessing the system (https://ei3aoei.mv.salesforce.com).

First-Time Login

The First time you log in, you will see the following screen. Do not enter your Username and Password in the fields
provided, you will receive an error. Instead, click the EPA Login button at the bottom. This allows you to utilize your EPA
LAN credentials, rather than maintaining a separate set of credentials for the applications on the Salesforce platform

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After First-Time Login

On subsequent uses, the EPA Login button is prominent, and the unused Username/Password option is hidden for you.

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After selecting EPA Login, you will be presented with the following screen. You will login using your EPA User ID and
Password.

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WARNING: This system contains U .S. Government Data Unauthorized use of this system is prohibited
This computer system including all related equipment, networks, and network devices (specifically including Internet access) are
provided only for authorized U.S. Government use U.S. Government computer systems may t>e monitored for all lawful purposes,
including to ensure that their use is authorized, for management of the system, to facilitate protection against unauthorized access,
and to verify security procedures, survivability and operational security. Monitoring includes active attacks by authorized U.S.
Government entities to test or verify the security of this system. During monitoring, information may be examined, recorded, copied
and used for authorized purposes. All information, including personal information, placed or sent over this system may be
Use of this computer system, authorized or unauthorized, constitutes consent to monitoring of this system. Unauthorized
subject you to criminal prosecution. Evidence of unauthorized use collected during monitoring may be used for administrative,
criminal, or other adverse action. Use of this system constitutes consent to monitoring for these purposes.

Use of this system implies understanding of these terms and conditions

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1. Select "Login with User ID & Password."

2. Enter your EPA LAN User ID and Password.

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4. On the government system acknowledgement screen that follows, click on the 'Accept' check box and click
'Next'.

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In proceeding and accessing this U.S. Government information system, you acknowledge
that you fully understand and consent to all of the following:

• You are accessing U.S. Government information and information systems that are
provided for official U.S. Government purposes only.

• Unauthorized access to or unauthorized use of U.S. Government information or
information systems is subject to criminal, civil, administrative, or other lawful
action;

• The term U.S. Government information system includes systems operated on
behalf of the U.S. Government;

• You have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communications or
information used, transmitted, or stored on U.S. Government information systems;

• At any time, the U.S. Government may for any lawful government purpose, without
notice, monitor, intercept, search, and seize any authorized or unauthorized
communication to or from U.S. Government information systems or information
used or stored on U.S. Government information systems.

• At any time, the U S. Government may for any lawful government purpose, search
and seize any authorized or unauthorized device, to include non-U.S. Government
owned devices, that stores U.S. Government information;

• Any communications or information used, transmitted, or stored on U.S.
Government information systems may be used or disclosed for any lawful
government purpose, including but not limited to, administrative purposes,
penetration testing, communication security monitoring, personnel misconduct
measures, law enforcement, and counterintelligence inquiries; and

• You may not process or store classified national security information on this
computer system.

• Only Government Furnished Equipment, including phones and tablets, may be
used to connect to this system.

• This system is not an approved record-keeping system. No official records are to
be retained here. If you need information from the system to become a record, you
must download it and place it in an approved Agency record-keeping system.

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Salesforce Home Page

After logging in, you will be taken to your default application's home screen. The home screen defaults to the BAP
Agency Forms Home screen for all users because this is the new Forms application.

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1. Current Application - Your current application

2. Global Search - Search for records and items within the system

3. Tabs - These allow you to switch between the different components of your current application

4. Application Switcher (Waffle) - If you have access to multiple Salesforce applications or objects, this allows you
to switch between them

5. Items to Approve - Records pending your approval

6. Recent Records - Records you have recently opened (Note: these are not application specific if you have access
to more than one application)

Current Application

This displays the name of the current application selected, as a reminder to you. As you switch between applications, if
you have access to more than one, this will display the current application name.

Global Search

Global Search is available on every page in Salesforce and allows you to find records you have access to in the system.
Global Search produces results for record types (including accounts, opportunities, documents, offerings, artifacts),
Chatter feeds, files, groups, topics, and people as well as field types (including custom fields and long text fields such as
descriptions, notes, and task and event comments). Global Search keeps track of which objects you use and how often
you use them. Search results for the objects you use most frequently appear by default.

Search terms are treated as separate words and may be found in different searchable fields within a record. Below is an
example of the Global Search results when searching for the name "John". You will see that you see results for Forms,
Accounts and Contacts that are associated with a person named John. Global Search is very helpful especially when you
do not know the exact or full name of a person, what Contacts are affiliated with an Account and you need to find the
information quickly. You can also search by other fields on the object, such as the Phone Number on a Contact, not just
the Name.

Note: If you'd like to conduct a phrase search to match multiple terms in the exact sequence that
they appear, select Exact Phrase in the Options or use quotations marks around your search terms.

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You can use the * (asterisk) and ? (question mark) wildcards to refine results. Use * to match one or more
characters, or use ? to match a single character. For example, searching for bob jo* finds items with Bob
Jones and Bob Johnson, and searching for jo?n finds items with john and joan. You can also use the AND, OR,
AND NOT, () (parentheses), and " " (quotation marks) operators to refine results.

The Global Search bar also provides instant results as you type, allowing you to locate items quickly.

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1.	Clicking on the search term (or pressing 'Enter') will take you to the complete results.

2.	Clicking on the search term 'in [Object]' option will locate results only in the current object instead of across the
system,

3.	Clicking on any of the instant results will take you directly to that record.

The complete results will be organized automatically by Object (which are components of an Application, and are
represented by the Tabs), therefore, you will see all the results that match your search grouped by their object.

In the example above, we're searching for the term "John". Search results are separated into the Cover Forms Object,
the Reports Object, and the Dashboards Object, with the option to "Show More" objects.

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Across the top of the page you will see ail the Tabs available within the current application and will help you access the
different functions/processes. They will change depending on the application. These Tabs are based on the permissions
that the Administrator set for you, Different users will potentially see different Tabs based on their roles. These Tabs will
help you access the different functions available to you within the current application.

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Clicking on the arrow (the "V" button) will open a dropdown menu instead of taking you to the Tab Page.

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App Launcher (Waffle)

If you have access to more than one application, clicking on this will allow you to switch between them. It will also
display the individual Objects, such as Forms or Contacts, Agreements, Projects, Cost-Share Contributions and Cost-
Share Reviews, to which you have been granted access - these are not specific to your current application, but are al
those to which you have access.

Items to Approve

This section will contain a list of all records currently pending your approval. If you have been chosen to approve a
particular record, typically by another user or system process, they will be added to this list. Additionally, as you approve
or reject those items, they will be automatically removed from this section so that only pending items are displayed.

Click the "View All" link at the bottom of the section to view additional items to approve.

Recent Records

This list contains the more recent records you have opened. These are typically listed in chronological order by which
was opened most recently. Note that these are not specific to your currently selected application, and therefore are
across all the different types of records you have access to within the system. Click the "View All" link located at the
bottom of the section to view additional recent records.

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Introduction to the STAA Application

To access STAA forms, first make sure you are in the STAA Application.

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1 In 2017 the Office of Environmental Information (OEI) established the Agency's Business Automation Platform
(BAP)., based on the Force.com platform from SalesForce, an industry-leading application Platform as a Service
(aPaaS) provider. The BAP supports all EPA Offices and Regions by supporting development and hosting

(aPaaS) provider. The BAP supports all EPA Offices and Regions by supporting development and hosting
of applications for business processes, data collection, reporting, and workflow automation.

The BAP allows development and deployment of forms, workflow automation, and reports in a declarative
environment i.e., without writing programming code. This saves the Agency time and money. It also lets
application owners and developers avoid getting bogged down in infrastructure provision and management, as
SalesForce handles that for them. The BAP helps you build your application with modern frameworks that handle
security, user access, user interface, reporting, etc. All you have to do is concentrate on your business logic.

For more information, visit the BAP Community SharePoint. If you have any specific questions, email bap-
request@epa.gov.

If the STAA Application is the only Salesforce application to which you have access, your screen will default to this page.
Otherwise, to get to the STAA Application (or to switch to other applications you may have access to), click on the App
Launcher (Waffle), located all the way to the left of the Tab row.

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Welcome to the Business Automation Platform!

In 2017 the Office of Environmental Information (OEI) established the Agency's Business Automation Platform (BAP),
based on the Force.com platform from SalesForce, an industry-leading application Platform as a Service (aPaaS)

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Select "STAA" from the list of applications.

The Current Application and Tabs (Objects) will show you that you are in the STAA Application.

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Cover Forms

Creating a New Award Application

To create a new award application:

1.	Click on the arrow (the "V" button) in the "Cover Forms" Tab to open a dropdown menu.

2.	Select the "New Cover Form" option. This will open a pop-up window.

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3. Start from the top of the form and review/fill in the following required information, then click Save.

a.	Primary Research Category

b.	Laboratory/Office Name

c.	Secondary Research Category

d.	Nominating Official

e.	ST A A Coordinator

f.	Citation

New Cover Form: STAA Application

Information

Nomination ID

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Energy and the Environment (EE)

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Control Systems and Technology (CS)

Ecological Research (ER)

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4. Once the New Cover Form section is completed, STAA creates a record of the form and takes you to that form's
page.

Cover Form

EPA-CF-0000000011

DETAILS	JUSTIFICATION 1	JUSTIFICATION 2	MORE

Nomination ID
18-012

Primary Research Category
Energy and the Environment (EE)

Secondary Research Category O
Control Systems and Technology (CS)

Nominating Official

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Laboratory/Office Name
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Nominating Author
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EPA Employee ID
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Organization
OEI-OUO-EHD

If at any time you need to return to your form's page, click on the drop-down arrow on the Cover Forms tab and
select your form from the menu.

5. Inside this form, the left-hand information window contains five tabs:

a.	Details: Contains the information you entered on the New Cover Form page.

b.	Justification 1

c.	Justification 2

d.	Justification 3

e.	Comments

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JUSTIFICATION 1	JUSTIFICATION 2	JUSTIFICATION 3	COMMENTS

Nomination ID
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Secondary Research Category O
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If your browser window is narrow, you wiii see a tab called More. Click on this tab to see all the remaining tabs
in the menu.

DETAILS	JUSTIFICATION 1	MORE

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Below this section is an Authors section for editing author information and a Publications section for attaching
supporting documents for your STAA nomination. These sections will be covered later in this document.





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In the bottom right-hand corner of the page is the Eligibility Checklist, which contains descriptions of all four
STAA eligibility criteria and a form which must be filled out before the STAA Application can be submitted.

6. Click on the Justification 1 item in the top menu to open this section.

Explain how the nominated papers represent research that is innovative and important in advancing the
scientific knowledge or technology relevant to EPA's mission. It is, important to provide a clear and compelling
explanation of the relevance, and impact of the research to EPA's mission (For example, the relevance of the
research to one of EPA's strategic goals may be described) (Limit to 16,000 characters including spaces.)

Click on the pencil icon in this form to fill out Justification 1.

DETAILS JUSTIFICATION 1 JUSTIFICATION 2 MORE

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Justification 1 0

Full explanation goes here.

Explain how the nominated paper's represent research that is innovative and important in advancing the
scientific knowledge or technology relevant to EPA's mission. It is. important to provide a clear and
compelling explanation of the relevance, and impact of the research to EPA's mission (For example, the
relevance of the research to one of EPA's strategic goals may be described) (Limit to 16,000 characters
including spaces.)

7. Click on the Justification 2 item in the top menu to open this section, which specifies the following:

The EPA Guidelines prohibit resubmission of publications nominated for STAA Awards in previous years.

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Click on the pencil icons for each justification form to fill it out.

a. Justification 2A: If multiple publications are submitted, provide a comprehensive explanation of the
relationship and lengths between subject matter among the different nominated publications. For
example, the discussion could describe how one publication builds on the results of a second
publication. (Limit to 16,000 characters including spaces.) Enter n/a if blank.

If multiple publications are submitted, provide a comprehensive explanation of the relationship and lengths
between subject matter among the different nominated publications. For example, the discussion could
describe how one publication builds on the results of a second publication. (Limit to 16,000 characters
including spaces.) Enter n/a if blank.

~ Complete Justifications 2A

Justification 2A 0

b. Justification 2B: List the previous 5 years of STAA nominations and associated publications for each EPA
author. Categorize the list by author and include publication title, year, and award. (For example, John
Smith, publication title(s), year(s), award(s).) (Limit to 16,000 characters including spaces.) Enter n/a if
blank.

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List the previous 5 year's of STAA nominations and associated publications for each EPA author. Categorize

the list by author and include publication title, year, and award. (For example, John Smith, publication title(s),
year(5), award(s).) (Limit to 16,000 characters including spaces.) Enter n/a if blank.

~ Complete Justification 2B	~

Justification 2B 0

Justification 2C: Provide a description of how this nomination's publication(s) differ from previous (last 5
years) and current nominations by the author(s). (Limit to 16,000 characters including spaces.) Enter n/a
if blank.

Provide a description of how this nomination's publication(s) differ from previous (last 5 years) and current
nominations by the author(s). (Limit to 16,000 characters including spaces.) Enter n/a if blank.



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Justification 2D: Indicate whether previously submitted supplemental information is listed as
supplemental information for the current nomination. (Limit to 16,000 characters including spaces.
Enter n/a if blank.

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Indicate whether previously submitted supplemental information is listed as supplemental information for
the current nomination. (Limit to 16.000 characters including spaces.) Enter n/a if blank.

~ Complete Justification 2D

Justification 2D Q

e. Justification 2E: If any of the authors have submitted a concurrent nomination to another research
category, provide sufficient justification to distinguish the difference between nominations. (Limit to
16,000 characters including spaces.) Enter n/a if blank.

If any of the authors have submitted a concurrent nomination to another research category, provide sufficient
justification to distinguish the difTernce between nominations. (Limit to 16,000 characters including spaces.)

Enter n/a if blank.

~ Complete Justification 2E ~

Justification 2E Q

8. Click on the Justification 3 item in the top menu to open this section. Fill out the forms in this section as
directed.

a. Justification 3A: Provide evidence of recognition of the contribution from outside. (Limit to 16,000
characters including spaces.)

Provide evidence of recognition of the contribution from outside. (Limit to 16,000 characters including
spaces.)

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Justification 3A Q

b. Justification 3B: Provide an explanation of the external peer review process used to evaluate the
scientific merit of the nominated publication(s). (Limit to 16,000 characters including spaces.)

Provide an explanation of the external peer review process used to evaluate the scientific merit of the
nominated publication(s). (Limit to 16,000 characters including spaces.)

~ Complete Justifications 3B ~

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9. The Comments tab contains directions regarding the submission of the application and its approval history.
Nothing needs to be filled in here.

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DETAILS	JUSTIFICATION 1	JUSTIFICATION 2	JUSTIFICATION 3	COMMENTS

"Submit Application' saves the nomination and forwards it to the Nominating Official.

Applicants cannot make any changes after submission, since the nomination is now under control of the Nominator.
Approval History (0)

10. Scroll down to the Author section to add information about all authors involved in the publication.

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To add a new author, click on the New button in the top right-hand corner. To edit an existing author, click on
the name of each author to go to that author's detailed page, then click on Edit in the top right-hand corner to
open the editor. Inside the editor, make sure the following information is included;

a.	Author's Email

b.	Author's Phone Number

c.	% of Total Effort author put into publication

d.	Whether the Author has a Record of Agreement

e.	If the Author is an EPA employee or not under At Time Research Was

When finished entering author information, click Save.

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Once you have completed filling in ail Justification forms and Author information, you will need to attach
supporting document files to the Publications section at the bottom of the page.

a. Click on the New button on the right-hand side to start.

b. A pop-up window will appear. In this window, select STAA Application and click Next.

c. Fill out the publication information in the next pop-up window and click Save. All fields marked with
asterisk are required fields.

* Publication Date
5/1/2018

* Pages

'Journal/Publication Method

* Gtation of Life

* Impact Factor

* Number

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d. When completed, the publication info will appear at the bottom of the page.

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f.	On the left-hand side, click on the pencil icons next to any line item to edit that information.

g.	On the right-hand side, click on the Upload Files button to upload any files or documents relevant to the
publication. You may also drag and drop files from Windows into this area.

h.	When completed, return to the Cover Form by clicking on the arrow in the Cover Forms tab and
selecting the Cover Form.

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i. Repeat this process as needed to add more publications to this section.

12. In the bottom right corner of the page is the Eligibility Checklist. Click on the pencil icon for any item in this
section to check the boxes, ensuring that all eligibility requirements for this application have been met.

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Eligibility Checklist

•	Eligibility Criteria 1: The nominated publication(s) has not
been submitted to a previous STAA competition.

•	Eligibility Criteria 2: The nominated publication(s) was
published on or before January 1, 2018, and on or after
January 1. 2013.

•	Eligibility Criteria 3: The principal author was an EPA
employee or a PHS employee assigned to EPA when the
research was performed.

•	Eligibility Criteria 4: The EPA author has submitted a "Record
of Agreement" to attest that credit has been correctly
assigned.

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The STAA review program is a long-standing partnership
between the Agency and the EPA Science Advisory
Board (SAB). Each year since 1980, Agency scientists
and engineers have submitted nominated scientific and
technological papers through an internal Agency review
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David Warner Jun 1, 2018

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