The vision of the Regulatory Science and Engineering Center (RSEC) at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies is to always be the definitive source of information on developing and implementing regulatory policy based on science and technology.  In order to achieve this primary objective, the mission of RSEC is to ensure its activities successfully achieve the following:

1. Build and maintain a comprehensive library of knowledge regarding the science behind making regulatory policy and the history that created the foundations of our current regulatory practices.
2. Create projects and opportunities that furthers the understanding (and application) of regulatory science and engineering.
3. Serve as a resource center for all individuals or organizations that attempt to practice regulatory science by establishing (and evolving) various tools and processes that can assist in the practice of using science and technology in developing regulatory policies (i.e. doing regulatory science).

Taken together, the basic mission of RSEC is to inform the field of regulatory science by communicating regulatory science and engineering to the public, and provide advice to government agencies, academia and industry about applying regulatory science and engineering practices to their development and implementation of regulatory policy.

If RSEC is not continually using quality science and engineering practices to assist those who develop and implement regulatory policies then the Center is failing at its mission.

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."

-Henry David Thoreau