Multi-Year Analysis Plan Page 6

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analysis is working toward a goal, be it to support EERE benefits analysis for the Biomass
Program, direct the R&D projects, or enabling biorefinery stakeholders.
Most of the engineering and analysis is done to support R&D projects and to direct and establish
quantifiable targets. It was difficult to extract the analysis efforts from the R&D projects and
show them clearly here; in most cases, it is safe to assume that every project has an aspect of
analyzing, providing targets, showing progress to them, and providing information to support
stage gate reviews.
The development of the MYAP is an on-going process, and will likely follow the MYTP
review/revision process as it did its conception. It may become a component of the MTYP at
some point to help address the difficulty of reporting analysis outside the context of R&D
projects with which it is so tightly linked.
Timing the analysis products to be most useful to both the R&D projects and the program office
is another area that will be improved with an analysis plan. Knowing, for example, that some
analysis showing the progress of the program is needed for the budget process in the spring,
recurring milestones have been added to the plan to provide updates of the state of technology in
each area. A yearly analysis roundtable meeting, which has taken place informally since FY01,
and regular web meetings ensure the analysis is coordinated and makes the most of integrating
the results.
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