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The Office of Scientific Quality Review
(OSQR)
The Office of Scientific Quality Review is a congressionally mandated entity, independent and objective within the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), tasked with ensuring the highest scientific quality for the Agency’s People, Projects, and Programs.
OSQR VISION
To be a trusted contributor to the value, safety, and integrity of American agricultural research, and to ensure that ARS remains a leader in delivering effective and innovative scientific solutions that address domestic and international agricultural needs.
OSQR MISSION
Our mission is to promote effectiveness and integrity as a staff to administer quality peer reviews of USDA’s people, projects and programs; to ensure accountability of the Agency’s research and the scientists who conduct it; to achieve greater efficiency, and program improvement by providing unique expert perspective on the science foundation of ARS.
Coordinates classification of ARS Category 1 research scientists positions
Coordinates peer review of ALL ARS funded intramural research project plans
Coordinates the retrospective evaluation of ALL ARS National Programs
STAFF
Kent Amott
(acting) Director
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Kent Amott
Lead Program Management Specialist (RPES)
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Linda Daly-Lucas
Program Analyst (PPPR)
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Michele Shaw
Program Analyst (PPPR)
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Dana Lamberti
Program Management Specialist (RPES)
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Kim Melton
Program Support Assistant (RPES)
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Shawn Dowd
Secretary
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John Luchansky, Ph.D.
Scientific Quality Review Officer (SQRO)
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