OSTI Awards and Honors (1995 – 2006)
2006
- January 2006 – CENDI Award to OSTI Staff for Central Roles in Science.gov
The Office of Scientific and Technical Information's Sharon Jordan and Valerie Allen were cited for their central roles in the creation and ongoing development of Science.gov, a federal science web portal. Jordan, Assistant Director of Program Integration for OSTI, and Allen, Product Manager of Science.gov — along with Jean Bowers, National Technical Information Service, and Ken Lanfear, U.S. Geological Survey — received the second annual Award of Meritorious Service, given by CENDI, an interagency working group of senior scientific and technical information managers from 12 U.S. federal agencies. According to the news release, the team has been central to the creation and ongoing development of this federal science portal.
2005
- November 2005 – OSTI Director elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society
Dr. Walter L. Warnick was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) [exit federal site] in the Information, Computing, and Communication section "for leadership in the federal scientific information community and for contributions to the conceptualization, development and implementation of innovative programs that significantly advance access to government information." Dr. Warnick was one of three members of the Department of Energy's Office of Science to be elected in 2005. AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society. An AAAS Fellow is defined as "a Member whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished." Examples of areas in which nominees may have made significant contributions are research; teaching; technology; services to professional societies; administration in academe, industry, government, and other institutions; and communicating and interpreting science to the public. Fellows are elected annually by the AAAS Council.
Dr. Warnick was recognized for his contribution to science at the Fellows Forum held on 18 February 2006 during the AAAS Annual Meeting in St. Louis. New Fellows receive a certificate and a blue and gold rosette pin as a symbol of their distinguished accomplishments.
Dr. Warnick is Director of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information.
2004
- April 2004 – OSTI Director appointed to the Depository Library Council to the Public Printer of the United States
Public Printer of the United States Bruce James appointed OSTI Director Walter Warnick to the Depository Library Council. The council addresses policy issues and seeks practical options toward efficient management and operation of the nation’s Depository Library Program. Public Printer James said of the appointees, "These individuals have dedicated their lives to ensuring that every American has access to Government information.” In addition to Dr. Warnick, the appointees include three university officials (Duke, South Carolina and Illinois) as well as a New York Public Library official.
- April 2004 – OSTI Director nominated to serve as CENDI chair
CENDI, an interagency working group of senior Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Managers from 11 Federal agencies, named Dr. Warnick as chair. CENDI agencies represent over 93% of the FY04 federal research and development budget. The group addresses science- and technology-based national priorities to improve productivity of programs and to strengthen U.S. competitiveness.
2002
- March 2002 – Secretarial
Certificate for Achievement of Electronic Goal
OSTI and its STIP partners at DOE field offices and laboratories
received Certificates of Achievement from Secretary of Energy Spencer
Abraham for successfully completing the transition from paper to
electronic technical information reporting in support of DOE's R&D
mission three years ahead of the DOE goal. This collaborative
implementation of best business practices in electronic government ensures
that information resulting from the Department's R&D activities is
readily accessible to all appropriate users in a fully integrated
E-Government environment. (Secretarial Certificate)
- March 18, 2002 – DOE IT Quality Award
for Mgmt/Admin Excellence
OSTI's "Streamlining OSTI Acquisitions and Data Management
Team" won an IT Quality Award for Management/Administrative
Excellence at a special awards ceremony at the 2002 Annual Information
Technology Conference held in Denver, CO, on March 18, 2002. The award
recognized the leadership in implementing a streamlined system for
providing legacy and current DOE STI in the Energy Citations Database and
developing a technical program for "harvesting" DOE R&D
results.
- January 2002 – Commendation from Depository Library Council for Energy Citations
Database
The Depository Library Council to the Public Printer commended the DOE
Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) and the Government
Printing Office for their partnership which provided the Energy Citations
Database (ECD). The database provides citations
to publications from 1948-present and contributes significantly to
increasing accessibility of Federal Government information to the public.
2001
- September 2001 – OSTI Director Receives Interagency Award
Chosen by leaders of the federal information technology and information science communities, the 2001 Interagency Resource Management Conference (IRMCO) Individual Award for all of government was presented to OSTI's Director, Dr. Walter L. Warnick. This prestigious award is presented each year to an individual or team that has demonstrated exceptional ability to operate across organizational boundaries to improve the government's service to its people.
- March 2001 – 2000 Information
Technology Quality Award for Executive Leadership
OSTI's Director, Dr. Walter L. Warnick, received the DOE-Wide IT Quality Award for Executive Leadership for his "vision and
leadership in championing an aggressive effort to
capitalize on technological advances in the Information Age to bring
science information to the desktops of U.S. and DOE researchers."
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January 2001 – Energy100 Award for
PubSCIENCE
PubSCIENCE is recognized as one of the
best 100 scientific and technological accomplishments of the Department of
Energy during this century.
2000
- January 2000 – Commendation from the Depository
Library Council for PubSCIENCE
Depository Library Council commends GPO and the Department of Energy's
Office of Scientific and Technical Information for sponsoring public access
to PubSCIENCE, a web-based product that provides access to more than a
million citations to journal articles in the physical sciences with
connections to a growing number of full text articles. Council is especially
pleased to see GPO and OSTI continue in their partnership to provide
essential energy-related information to the public and hopes to see
additional products available in the future.
1999
- October 1999 – PubSCIENCE appears in First
Anniversary Edition of Access America Online
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Scientific Journals Online, an article about PubSCIENCE, appeared in
the First Anniversary Edition of
Access America Online. PubSCIENCE,
OSTI's newest product, is a component of EnergyFiles
Virtual Library Collection of Energy Science and Technology.
- August 16, 1999 – EnergyPortal Appears in Federal
Computer Week
"DOE
energizes site with extensive web searches" is the title of the
article appearing in "Federal Computer Week," August 16, 1999. The
article discusses the new EnergyFiles search engine "EnergyPortal"
and its capability to combine searches of 450 distributed databases and
various government and private/non-profit websites. Search EnergyPortal.
- August 6, 1999 – PubSCIENCE Appears in
Science Magazine
SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING: Science Magazine reported in its August 6, 1999,
issue that DOE built a website for the Physical Sciences called
PubSCIENCE. See DOE Builds a website for the Physical Sciences. PubSCIENCE, jointly sponsored by the Department of
Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) and the
Government Printing Office (GPO), is a World Wide Web application which
provides access to abstracts of journal articles and associated
bibliographic information. PubSCIENCE is expected to be available to the
public on October 1, 1999.
- July 1999 – STIP Community
Wins Award
The STIP Community was awarded a National
Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR) "Hammer Award" for
the successful transition to electronic scientific and technical information
(STI) management. This award recognizes the team of employees who made a
significant contribution in support of reinventing government principles.
Some 96 individual participants were involved in the electronic transition
effort.
In the single most revolutionary change in its history, OSTI and its STIP
partners collaboratively developed procedures to convert the Program from a
centralized paper-based operation to a decentralized electronic activity
which uses the Internet and World Wide Web, thus making DOE's STI more
widely available in less time and at a lower cost per person served. It is
estimated that this paperless way of doing business will avoid costs to the
Department and U.S. taxpayers of approximately $2 million per year.
- July 1999 – Congressman Lauds Agreement between
GPO and OSTI for Information Bridge
On July 13, 1999, Congressman Steny Hoyer recognized government successes by
lauding GPO and DOE for the Information Bridge. Read Congressional Record article.
- May 1999 – Hammer Award
Presented for the R & D Project
Summaries Web Database, which contains key corporate information relating
to over 14,000 R&D projects performed since FY95 by DOE's laboratories
and other installations, "the Hammer Award is an NPR tribute to teams
of federal reinventors and their partners in state and local government
and the private sector. The award recognizes them for using reinvention
principles to create a government that works better, costs less, and delivers
results the American people care about," according to the NPR web page
[Archived Site].
This web application
was made available to DOE customers and stakeholders, including the public,
on June 1, 1997. This Hammer Award was presented at a ceremony held in Oak
Ridge, Tennessee.
- May 1999 – EnergyFiles Award
EnergyFiles: Virtual Library
Collection of Energy Science and Technology The EnergyFiles: Virtual
Library Collection of Energy Science and Technology team members from the
Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Office of Science, were
selected to receive a 1999 Hammer Award. "The Hammer Award is a tribute
to teams of federal reinventors and their partners in state and local government
and the private sector. The award recognizes them for using reinvention
principles to create a government that works better, costs less, and delivers
results the American people care about," according to the NPR web page
[Archived Site]. EnergyFiles: Virtual
Library Collection of Energy Science and Technology provides access to over
400 scholarly collections of energy-related scientific and technical information.
This Hammer Award was presented at a ceremony in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
- February 1999 – Information
Bridge Award
DOE Information Bridge team members from the Office of Scientific and Technical
Information, Office of Science, received a National Partnership for Reinventing
Government "Hammer Award." The Hammer Award was presented to OSTI
representatives at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
(AFCEA) Virtual Government Conference in Washington, D.C., on February 23,
1999. Francis Buckley, Superintendent of Documents, was also at the ceremony
representing the Government Printing Office, which through a cooperative
partnership with the Office of Scientific and Technical Information made
a public version of Information Bridge available to Federal Depository Libraries and other interested users.
The Hammer Award recognizes teams of federal employees and their partners
whose work resulted in a government that works better and costs less. The
public version of the award-winning DOE Information Bridge captures and
offers free access to the key deliverables of DOE's annual $6 billion R&D
program in such areas as physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental
cleanup, and other energy-related disciplines. An enhanced version is also
available to the Department and its contractors (now Science Research Connection).
Making this information available on the Internet in an organized, searchable
format is a significant benefit to the Department and, ultimately, to the
U.S. taxpayer.
1998
- September 1998 – DOE Information Management Quality
Award for Technical Excellence
Presented to the DOE Information Bridge
Project Team, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Science
Applications International Corporation, and NCI Information Systems, Inc.,
for development and implementation of the innovative DOE Information Bridge
providing web access for scientific research activities to DOE R&D
program results, thus maximizing the U.S. taxpayer investment in energy
research.
- April 1998 – Commendation
from the Depository Library Council for the Information
Bridge
Approved by the Depository Library Council, which serves as an advisory
committee for the GPO, to the Public Printer, the commendation reads:
"Council commends the GPO and the Department of Energy for providing
no-fee public access to the Office of Scientific and Technical Information's
'Information Bridge' through GPO Access. This partnership between a
major technical agency and GPO provides a convenient and cost-effective
successor to the DOE depository microfiche collection." It is a
rare honor for one agency to award a commendation to another agency.
- April 1998 – Yahoo Pick of the Day
The DOE Information Bridge selected
for the pick of the day for April 29, 1998.
- January 1998 – Tennessee Quality Commitment
Award
The Office of Scientific and
Technical Information was presented with the Tennessee Quality
Commitment Award by Governor Don Sundquist at the fifth annual Tennessee
Quality Awards presentation on January 12, 1998. The Quality
Commitment describes an intermediate level for organizations that have
advanced from their initial steps toward total quality improvement and are
recognized for the accomplishments toward the next level of achievement. The
ceremony was attended by more than 1,000 representatives of participating
Tennessee companies, organizations and support groups statewide. OSTI's
award puts it in a class of being one of the best of Tennessee
organizations.
1997
- November 1997 – Senator Warner's Committee Applauds
Agreement Between GPO and OSTI for Information
Bridge
A letter approving the interagency agreement between GPO and OSTI for the
Public Information Bridge was sent to The Honorable Michael F. DiMario,
Public Printer, from John Warner, Chairman for the Joint Committee on
Printing. The letter states: "The committee views this proposed
Interagency Agreement as a good model which should be offered to other
agencies whose materials are of value to the depository library
program..."
- October 1997 – Department of Energy's FY 1997
Information Management (IM) Management/Administrative Excellence Award
This award was presented to OSTI's
R&D Project Summaries Web Database Team during the IM
Council meeting, October 20–22, 1997, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The award
was given for creation of the DOE R&D Project Summaries Web Database in
response to ongoing Departmental needs to share, publicize, and better
manage the Department's R&D results.
- October 1997 – Energy Quality
Commendation Award
Presented by Secretary Federico Peña, the Department of Energy's Office
of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) received this award.
The Energy Quality Award is given for excellence in work processes,
environmental issues, and leadership practices judged by the Department's
Energy Quality Council and award examiners using six Malcolm Baldridge
National Quality Award management criteria. A large number of the OSTI staff
participated in explaining and demonstrating how the OSTI quality program
operates during a site visit that was conducted by the examining team in
July of this year. The award recognizes OSTI as one of the Administration's
National Performance Review high caliber organizations.
- January 1997 – OSTI Receives Secretary's
Gold Award
Presented by the Secretary of Energy Hazel R. O'Leary, this award was given
in recognition of OSTI's participation on the Human Radiation Experiments
Team. Assistance was provided to the Presidential Advisory Committee and the
Office of Human Radiation Experiments in the search to uncover and make
available agency records on radiation experiments associated with the
Department and its predecessor agencies.
1996
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August
1996 – Award for Reinventing Government
The Directive Re-engineering Group led by OSTI received an award for cutting
red tape associated with the management of the Department-wide $240 million
annual process for managing STI, thus supporting the principles of reinventing
government. The Group received this award for working in partnership with
over 100 STI managers to reduce 143 pages of prescriptive and mandatory
requirements to just 8 pages of collaboratively developed requirements.
As a result of the significant success of this Group, the collaborative
process for managing the Department's STI function is now the standard
for DOE and the working model that other information management activities
try to emulate.
1995
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Spring 1995 – Adopter of the Year Award
Presented by Anderson County Schools in recognition of the Office of
Scientific and Technical Information's Adopt-A-School program and their
efforts to help Anderson County Elementary Schools.
