After World War II, a system of national laboratories was created to foster a suitable environment for scientific research. Today, human factors activities are in evidence at most of the nine U.S. Department of Energy multi-program national laboratories as well as at a number of “special program” facilities. In this integrated lecture-poster session, the opening and closing lecture presentations–providing historical and future perspectives, respectively–surround a “thematic poster session” conducted by representatives from six multi-program and two special program laboratories.
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