Mission Planning and Integration Branch
The Mission Planning and Integration Branch (MPIB) identifies and integrates into the NIAID mission plan the long-term financial and capital asset resource requirements, including human assets, facilities, specialized research resources such as specialized labs, animal models, and repositories, of over 100 major research programs and initiatives. MPIB leads NIAID efforts to integrate long-term plans into the Institutes's mission and execute them, with primary focus on the years beyond the budget development years.
MPIB translates research information, data, trends, and priorities developed as part of the Institute’s strategic planning process, along with information, data, trends, and priorities for non-research activities, into critical, long-term resource requirements.
MPIB responsibilities include:
- Identifying and describing the probable effects on the Institute’s resource needs of various programming and funding scenarios, identifying trade-offs and limitations of each set of choices
- Providing specialized financial analyses to the three main missions of Institute research to identify how they may affect decisions regarding the deployment of assets:
- AIDS
- Bio-defense
- Other infectious diseases
- Recommending the means for resolving conflicting issues related to the deployment of finite Institute resources, i.e., funding, staffing, and facilities
- Identifying and applying data sets that, when analyzed, may yield pertinent information and insights into complex trade-offs between asset requirements and allocations
- Recommending cost-effective options for sourcing present and future staffing in support of the Institute’s scientific programs
- Translating emerging programs into executable requirements for people, money, and facilities
- Devising new knowledge-based tools for better asset planning through data mining, complex data set analysis, data interpretation, and archiving
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