Funded by the National Science Foundation’s FAIR Open Science Research Coordination Network (FAIROS RCN) program, the FAIR Facilities and Instruments project seeks to develop community-based recommendations and best practices for persistent identifier (PID) adoption for research instruments and facilities. Assigning PIDs to facilities and instruments allows data users to better understand how and where data is created while broadening discoverability and attribution for facilities and instruments themselves. As the open science PID ecosystem coalesces around practices like the use of DOIs for data sets, ORCIDs for individual researchers, and RORs for organizations, multiple PID systems for facilities and instruments have emerged around specific use cases and disciplinary needs (e.g., DOIs, RRIDs, ARKs). Thus, a community-based coordinated approach is necessary to ensure PIDs for instruments and facilities are adopted in ways that ensure the widest benefits to everyone involved in the research landscape. This presentation will present findings from the first year of activities conducted by the FAIR Facilities and Instruments project to identify use cases and to bring together communities from a range of disciplines and roles. These activities included multiple online focus groups with various communities and an in-person workshop that convened experts from around the country to discuss motivations for and barriers to PID adoption as well as realistic near-term actions to pursue. Project findings to date represent an important step on the path to incorporating PIDs for facilities and instruments into the wider data ecosystem, which will allow these resources to be connected to other entities like data sets, researchers, organizations, articles, grants, and more. This is necessary for research transparency and reproducibility as well as for recognizing the essential contributions of facility and instrument operators whose labor is often obscured in traditional research hierarchies. The presentation will conclude by highlighting next steps for the project over the coming years.