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Technology Services

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Implementation of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act

International Legal Metrology

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Metric Program

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Standard Reference Materials

Standards and Conformity Assessment Activities in Support of Trade

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Technology Services

Technology Services is NIST's primary point of contact and service-delivery organization. It is the institute's main interface to diverse customer groups that rely on and leverage NIST services in a wide array of science, technology, and trade activities. It also provides support for the NIST policy on measurement traceability.

Technology Services supports the NIST Laboratories in developing and delivering calibrations, Standard Reference Materials®, and Standard Reference Data; in developing formal partnerships with collaborators from industry and elsewhere; in managing intellectual property; and by providing a variety of specialized information services. Technology Services also promotes uniformity in U.S. weights-and-measures laws, regulations, and standards, and it coordinates efforts to increase governmental use of private-sector voluntary standards. Providing technical assistance to voluntary standards bodies and coordinating laboratory accreditation and other conformity assessment activities (often in support of trade agreements) also are functions of Technology Services. Efforts also are directed at lowering standards-related market barriers that can impede the export of U.S. goods and services. In addition, Technology Services manages NIST's Small Business Innovation Research Program, and it promotes use of the metric system in the United States.

Contact: Belinda Collins, Director

Office of Technology Partnerships
Contact: Bruce E. Mattson

Information Services Division
Contact: Mary-Deirdre Coraggio

Measurement Services
Contact: Robert L. Watters, Jr.

Standards Services Division
Contact: Mary H. Saunders

Weights and Measures
Contact: Carol Hockert


Date created:December 19, 2001
Last modified: Aug. 02, 2007 6-20-06
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