NIST Update Archives (1997-1999)

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Dec. 6, 1999-- President Approves FY 2000 Appropriations for NIST, Longer Hours for Help Center as New Year's Nears, ATP Opens FY 2000 Competition, Natural Constants Get First Makeover in 13 Years, March Conference to Showcase 1999 Baldrige Winners, New Database Seeks 'Measured Once, Accepted Everywhere', Editor's Note

Nov. 23, 1999-- Four U.S. Firms Recognized for Quality and Business Excellence, Laser Light Pulses Make New Ultrasensitive Chemical Detector, Embedded Systems Need 'End-to-End' Checkups, It's Official: Triple DES Is Now a Federal Standard, New High-Power RF Measurement System Developed, Guidelines Aim for Better Coordination, Management

Nov. 8, 1999--Study Shows Small Firms Ambitious, Aggressive in Pursuing Projects Brochure Highlights CSTL Research and Services U.S., Japan Sign Pact for 'Good Measure' International Effort Starts 'Cracking' Down on Reactor Embrittlement Permeability Database Now Available Online Bibliographies of Electronics-Related Work Now Available

Oct. 25, 1999-- Online Version of Math Functions Handbook in the Works, Evaluating the ATP: The Experts Go On the Record, International Measurements Will No Longer Be Beyond Compare, Steps to STEP Documented in New Publication, California, Massachusetts Professors Win NIST Grants

Oct. 12, 1999--Thirty-Seven Projects to Receive ATP Support, New NIST Laser Measurement Service Has Users Beaming, Two from Down Under Now under MRA, Study Sheds Light on Degradation of Self-Assembled Monolayer, Long-Distance Weld Monitoring Now Feasible, NIST Turns Over CMRL Management after 70 Years

Sept. 27, 1999--New Standard Debuts at Second eBook Conference, Vortices Imaged in Bose-Einstein Condensates, Time Draws Near for ATP's Annual Look to the Future, Last-Minute Planning, Rapid Response Highlight New Program, Physicists Catch Best Waves Ever from Improved SURF III, ATP Director Lura Powell to Retire Baldrige Teams Will Examine 10 for 1999 Award

Sept. 13, 1999--NIST/CU Scientists First to Observe New Quantum Gas, A Capacitance Standard by Tallying Electrons? You Can Count on It!, President Honors Small Manufacturers with Special Week, Trace Gas Method Boosts Sensitivity NIST Center Distributes Draft Technical Regulations

August 30, 1999--Joint Optoelectronic Project Marks Three Years of Success, Save Time, Dollars in Selecting New Manufacturing Technologies, Ionizing Radiation Council to Hold Eighth Annual Meeting at NIST, Standard Aids Mode-Field Diameter Measurement of Fibers, NIST Launches Conformity Assessment Web Site, Want to Know Everything About Printed Wiring Boards? Ask NIST!

August 16, 1999--Five Finalists for AES Selected, California Center Helps Aerospace Parts Manufacturer Fly High, Cooperation Yields Better Understanding of Alternative Refrigerants, New Standards Expert on the Job in Europe, Emerging DVD Standards to be Focus of Winter Meeting, Proposals Sought for Precision Measurement Grants, New Microtraps Better Capture the Elusive Laser-Cooling Ion

August 2, 1999--Smart Solar Energy System Headed for the Public, Nearly 20K Get O.K. for Y2K from MEP, Increased Accuracy Is Goal of New Pyroelectric Radiometer, Wanted: Baldrige Award Examiners for 2000, Snell Named Head of Building and Fire Research Lab, Conference Eyes Future of Transatlantic Marketplace, New NIST Database Makes Air Quality Checks a Breeze

July 19, 1999--NIST X-Ray Detector Heads for Commercialization, DOT Says Shippers Not Exempt from State Inspections of Scales, Patent Issued for Chromatographic Storage Devices, RCSB Assumes Full Responsibility for Protein Data Bank, Microstrip Testing Accurately Measures Interconnect Performance, NIST Clean Room Team Earns Hammer Award

July 6, 1999--Help in Spanish Now Available for 'El Problema del Año 2000', NIST Helps Give Java™ a Bigger Kick, Standards Important to Deregulating Industry, Grant Aims to Foster Business Growth in Michigan, New Website Tells How NIST, Partners 'Make a Case' for History, Paper Details Pros and Cons of Annealing Optical Fibers, NIST Videos Now Just a Click Away

June 21, 1999--Fifty-two Organizations Try for Nation's Top Award for Excellence, Sausage Maker's Link to Success Is Wisconsin Center, NIST and Maine Team Up for Technology, Economic Growth, NIST Gathers Valuable Gas Data for Chip Processing, Amendments Focus FQA, Lesson Burden and Lead to Enactment, Reference Materials Available to Measure Ferrite Content of Welds

June 7, 1999--Draft Standard Speaks Volumes for Future E-Book Success, Magnetic Recording Industry to Benefit from New Partnership, NASA Adopts STEP Standard for Data Exchange, New NVLAP Directory Lists Accredited Labs, International Comparison of Charpy Programs Shows Good Agreement, NCWM Annual Meeting to Address Improved Handbook 133

May 24, 1999--Beware Criminals! NIST Unifies Different Ballistics ID Systems, Montana, Pennsylvania Centers Help Retiree Find Gold in Grit, New Standard Files Double Copying Under 'Obsolete', Testing Lab Expert Named NACLA Administrator, Hebner to Leave NIST for Lone Star Electronics Post, Virtual Reality Symposium Really Takes Place in November

May 10, 1999--Promising Strategy May Help Overcome Measurement Dilemma, Spare the Rod, Spoil the Accuracy for Fiber Measurements, New Report Charts Path to Transformation with MEP's Help, Researcher Investigates Reliability Problems with Flip-Chips, Documents Tell How to Improve Cavity Measurement Accuracy, Kovac Named to NIST Visiting Committee; Goesser Resigns, NIST Scientist Receives Gold Medal for Refrigeration Work

April 26, 1999 NIST Will Lead Study on Danger of Fire Smoke, Research Dollars May Save Lives, Property, ATP Credited for Boosting Field of Gene Expression Analysis, Tech Trends Shape U.S. Economic Future, NIST's ITL Documents Year of Accomplishments, Quality and Performance Excellence Star in Four-Video Set, Heydemann Retires from Technology Services

April 12, 1999 Lost in Translation: $1 Billion, ATP to Hone Cutting Edge at Fall National Meeting, NIST Models Benefit Industry, Society, Iowa Center Keeps Company Happy--and in State, Workshop to Focus on Parcel Shipping Scale Regulations, Biometric Groups Merge, Unify Interface Development

March 29, 1999 'ATP a Success' States Report on First Projects, Atoms Mimic Laser Light in First-Ever Matter Wave Mixing Experiment, Get a Jump on the Bug with New NIST Kit, Sprinkler Testing Without the High Cost, Mess ... or the Flames, Antenna Measurements Fortified by OATS, New Primer for 'Steam Tables' Hot Off the Presses, Four Named to NIST Visiting Committee, Paper Highlights History, Importance of Impact Testing

March 15, 1999 NIST Scientists Demonstrate Highly Directional Atom Laser, Doors Opened to New Chemistry Building and NIST’s Future, NIST Demonstrates Field Mapping with MRF Microscopy, 1999 Conference to Feature IBM Internet Head, NIST Chemistry Team Earns Hammer Award, Georgia Bath Fixtures Firm Cleans Up with Center's Advice, Han Receives High Polymers Physics Prize, Editor's Note

March 1, 1999 Report Recommends More Focused, Less Burdensome FQA, Y2K Help Center Is Open for Business, Conference Goal: Making the Web a Lot Less Tangled, Databases Now on the Job to Help Keep Gas Flowing, New Transfer Standard Improves Calibration for Optical Meters, Two NIST Researchers Honored as PECASE Recipients, NGA Supports 'Year of the Small Manufacturer'

February 16, 1999  Daley Declares 1999 As 'Year of the Small Manufacturer', 'Baldrige Index' Once Again Outperforms S&P 500, Solidification Sensor for Turbine Blade Castings Developed,  Diggs to Become NCWM Chairman at 84th Annual Meeting, NIST's Rumble Elected President of CODATA, New Apparatus Measures Thermal-Barrier Coatings Better, Report Praises NIST Programs for 1998 Accomplishments

February 1, 1999 Administration Seeks $735 Million for NIST in FY 2000, NIST Passes 800 CRADA Mark in FY 1998, NIST, BioSpace Reach New Heights with Space Crystals, New Study Captures Successes of Extension Center Clients, Guide to Calibration Service for Capacitance Standards Available, Young Consortium Already Making an Impact, New Directory Lists Federal Certification and Related Programs

January 19, 1999 IBM's Brown Named New NIST Deputy Director, Two Long-Time and Time-Honored Lab Directors to Retire, Three Times DES Is Formula for Info Security Success, 1999 Baldrige Criteria Get a New Look, Format, NIST Division Reorganizes to Meet Changing R&D Needs

January 4, 1999 Cahn Awarded Nation's Highest Scientific Honor, Survey on Retail Pricing Accuracy Finds Mixed Performance, Superconducting Sensor Provides More Sensitive AC Measurements, FedCIRC Passes Test, Begins Permanent Service, New Paper Discusses Standards Activity for NDE, Scientists Define Complex Chemistry in Chip Making Devices, DSS Expansion Broadens Federal IT Security Choices

December 7, 1998 SIMnet Launched to Foster Free Trade in Americas, April 1999 Conference to Showcase 1998 Baldrige Winners, Updated FIPS Links Federal, Private-Sector Date Standards, New Technique May Improve Gallium-Arsenide Wafers, 'Hot' New Steam Tables Available from NIST, Laser Diode Produces Light Pulses Every Half-Picosecond, New Guide Prevents Being Pound (Foot, Gallon, and ... ) Foolish, Digest Available on Optical Fiber Measurement

November 23, 1998 Three U.S. Firms Recognized for Quality and Business Excellence, Summary of Summit on U.S. Standards Strategy Published, One Competition Does It All for 1999, Three New Bibliographies of Electronics-Related Work Available, February Workshop Tackles Conformity Assessment Issues, A Decade of Metrology Research at Your Fingertips

November 9, 1998 Princeton and MIT Physicists Receive NIST Grants, Second SRM for Optical Fiber Metrology Available, New Book Confronts Issues Challenging Semiconductor Industry, Reach NIST Staff More Efficiently with Zip+4, New Group Turns the First Page on E-book Standards, New Service Checks Time Software's Y2K Compatibility

October 26, 1998 President Approves FY 1999 Appropriations for NIST, Legislation Benefits Smaller Manufacturers, Quality and Education, More Y2K Help Available for Small Manufacturers, NIST, Two Universities to Manage Protein Data Bank, NIST and CU Physicists Win Major Science Prize, NIST Investigation Report Available as Case Study, New Capacitance Standard May Improve Calibration Service

October 13, 1998 FY 98 Competitions Select 79 Projects for Partnering, Implementation Delay, Report to Congress Announced for FQA, Baldrige Teams Will Examine Nine for 1998 Award, Pact to Enhance Foreign Sales of U.S. Info Tech Security Products, New NIST-ANSI Agreement Targets Conformity Assessment Issues, New Marine Research Lab Has NIST Connection, NIST, NCWM Solidify 93-Year-Old Partnership, Congress Told 'CARB Research Impacts Industry'

September 28, 1998 Innovative Microscope Ready to Measure Industry Samples, Microscope Doctor Among 1998's Top 100 Technologies, Comments Sought on Proposed Changes to Selection Criteria, Video Highlights Metrology Done the Long-Distance Way, Corrosion Damage Keeps Arizona Siphons from Pumping Up (Water), Coplanar Waveguide Verification Sets Are Now Reference Materials

September 14, 1998 NIST Test Blocks Now Available; Rockwell C Hardness Scale Revised, Fall Meeting to Address Broad Array of R&D Opportunities, New Method May Lead to Better Insulators and Faster Microchips, Center Helps Hydraulics Company Lift Its Efficiency, Sales, New Version of Refrigerant Database Released, Encrypton Key Advisory Group Gets Extended Lifetime

August 31, 1998 15 Candidates for Advanced Encryption Standard Chosen, New Primer Helps Improve Use of Electron-Beam Moiré Technique, Brochure Details Valuable Standards Resource, Upgraded Website Keeps the Millennium Bug from Bugging, N-WEST to Help Set Direction for Wireless Industry, Last Chance to Sign Up for Fall Biometric Workshop

August 17, 1998 Smaller Manufacturers: Swat the 'Millennium Bug' with Self-Help Tool, Study Takes First Step Toward Less Costly Fresh Air, New Standard Helps Computer Makers Assess Flat-Panel Quality, Federal/State Study Finds 19 Percent of Milk Containers Short, Portable Josephson Voltage Standard Passes Initial Tests, New Consortium Examines Flame Retardancy in Plastics, Updated 'One-Stop' Industry Guide to NIST Available

August 3, 1998 NIST to STEP into New Role, Miners Get a Break as Machine Lays Down the Line, Candidates for AES to be Announced at Upcoming Conference, Wanted: Baldrige Award Examiners for 1999, Keck Foundation to Fund Optical Lab at JILA, Fact Sheet Highlights Progress on NSMP Projects, Proposals Sought for Precision Measurement Grants

July 20, 1998  NIST Machine to Aid in Making Better Artificial Joints, Public Inquiries Number Now a Snap to Remember, NIST Helps Insurers Evaluate Year 2000 Preparedness, October Workshop to Write Next Chapter in Publishing, Partnership for Competent Lab Accreditation Now Incorporated, Bipolar Voltage Source Developed for AC and DC Metrology

July 6, 1998  NIST Extends FQA Implementation Date Until Oct. 25, Round Is More Sound for UV Weathering of Materials, Survey Says 'Globalization' Among Top CEO, Challenges, NIST Director Praises Electronics Industry Technology Roadmap, Traveling Kits Make Scattering Parameter Traceability Easier, Fall Workshop Features State of the Art in Oil Spill Burning, NIST Meeting First to Address Measuring Optical Radiation Hazards

June 22, 1998  Thirty-Six Companies Apply for 1998 Baldrige Award, Montana Center Helps Boot Company Put Best Foot Forward, 500 + Applicants Vie for 1998 Project Awards, NIST Training on Price Scanning Accuracy Benefits Consumers, Be It Ever So Humble, There's No Place Like NIST's New Homepage, Industry, Government Team Up for Seamless, Secure E-Commerce, Researchers Find Cool Way to Make Laser Measurements

June 8, 1998  National Standards Strategy Focus of September Summit, Microcalorimeter Focuses on Gene Sequencing, Space Age Technology Helps Boozer Lumber Streamline Operations, D-Dot Sensor Calibrations Deliver for Aircraft Industry, What's My Line? International Team Knows for Hydrazine Spectrum, NIST Seeks Partners for Concrete Improvement Program, International Agreement to Improve Crystal Structure Database

May 26, 1998 Billions for Industrial 'Measurement Capability' Reported, Partners Team Up to 'Beat the Heat' in Buildings, Texas Center Helps Toner Remanufacturer Make the Right Move, Embrittlement Measurements May Help Keep Reactors Running, Standard Interface Proposed for Inspection Probes, Simplex Brings Fire Systems into BACnet Consortium

May 11, 1998 NIST, Partners on an Intelligence (in Manufacturing) MISSION, Centers Provide Educational Vaccines for 'Millennium Bug', Toolkit Streamlines Testing of CORBA Software, DoE Now Evaluates Energy Technologies as ERIP Ends 22-Year Service, New Specs Released to Enhance Online Learning, Ultrasound Method Diagnoses Stress Before Bridges Crack

April 27, 1998 Builders Now Have BEES to Buzz About, New NIST Calibration Services Users Guide Available, Toll-Free Way to Send Metrology-Related Trade Barriers Packing, Get Up to Speed on Integration of Manufacturing Applications, Comments Sought on Future Directions for Catalysis R&D, Thompson to Become NCWM Chairman at 83rd Annual Meeting, Proceedings of Welding Conference Now Available

April 13, 1998 FQA Final Rule Published; Implementation Date Extended,  With Center's Help, HBM's Sales Tip the Scales in U.S. and Europe, NIST, CAM-I Chart Program of 'Leveraged' Research, Satellite Signals Improve Clock Synchronization 100-Fold, The New SRM Catalogs Are In!, Document Recycles Multimode Optical Fibers Expertise, Smith Named to Head Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory

March 30, 1998 Benefits of NIST Data Are Worth 10 Times the Costs,  Partners Fill Big Need With Better SRMs for Shrinking Chips,  Seven Trapped Ions Make a Better Clock , Comments on Softwood Lumber Standard Sought, NIST Lab Upgrades Scientific Data on the Web, Partners Create New Detector for Fiber Power Measurements, Tensile Testing of Thin Films Showcased in Reference Set

March 16, 1998 'Pocket Chemistry Lab' Moves Closer to Market, NIST and Astralux Extend CRADA on Gallium Nitride Films, Report Shows Network Making Difference for Manufacturers, Demos to Showcase Electronic Commerce, Detailed Facilities Plan Submitted to Congress, New Report Highlights NIST's 1997 IT Accomplishments

March 2, 1998 Study Scopes Service Sector Tech Trends, Needs, Health Care, Education Excellence Guides Now Available, NIST Short Course Yields Better Temperature Measure, SRM Available for Optical Fiber Metrology, EMAT Applied to Magnetostriction of Metals, Report Details Past Year's EEEL Achievements, Four-Program Set Honors Baldrige 10th Anniversary, MANEX Helps Keep Futon Maker from Losing Sleep

February 17, 1998 Failure of Tiny Rivets May Have Sunk 'Unsinkable Liner, 'Baldrige Index' Outperforms S&P 500 Again, ATP Consortium Writes the Book on Building a Better Car, Baldrige Winners Share Success on 1998 Nationwide Tour, Proposals Sought for New Learning Technologies Program, Two New Quality Categories Proposed for Fy 1999, Largest Ever Expansion of Mass Spectral Database Available, NIST Helps Shuttle Fly Free of Flaws in Flow Measurement

February 2, 1998 Administration Seeks $715 Million for NIST in FY 1999, New Optical Properties Consortium Looking for Members, New Study Demonstrates Significant Impact on Industrial R&D, Clay Complexes Avoid Aggregation, Prevent Aggravation, Project Summaries Offer Glimpse of Tomorrow's Better Homes, NIST To Evaluate Evaluators of Water Quality Testing

January 20, 1998 On the Web: Tips & Tactics for Successful R&D Alliance, ATP Conference: Technology Challenges in Electronic Commerce, Two Measurement Proposals Win Grants, Information Technology in Process, Array of Advances Achieved in Motor Vehicle Manufacturing, NIST Engineer Helps Navy Save Millions of Dollars

January 5, 1998 Eight New Competitions Start Out FY 1998, Power Doubling for WWVB Could Help Keep You on Schedule, Baldrige Guide to Performance Excellence is Updated for 1998, NIST Models Thermodynamics of Replacement Refrigerants, First Step Taken Toward Mutual Recognition for U.S., Pacific Nations, Experts Report on Search for 21st Century Refrigerants, Three Documents Chronicle Nearly 30 Years of Research

December 8, 1997 President Approves FY 1998 Appropriation for NIST ..Study Shows Dramatic Impacts on Printed Wiring Board Industry...NIST Seeks Data on Software Failures...Agencies Launch Technology Roadmap Effort..NIST Helps Better Characterize LF Anechoic Chambers...Consortium Seeks Better Measures for Emerging Industry

November 24, 1997 Kammer Takes Office as NIST Director ..NIST Radiopharmaceuticals: Good for Your Health ... and Wallet...Tests Show Foam Protects Homes in Fire Storm Path...NIST Invention Has 'Polish'..February Workshop Seeks Improved Trade with China...Predicting the Texture of Sheet Metals by EMATs

November 10, 1997 NIST to Propose Inspection Standard to ISO...Conference to Link Technology Programs, Economic Growth...An AC Source with Quantum Mechanical Accuracy...NIST, USFA Strengthen Firefighting Partnership..Semiconductor Wire Bonding 'Bible' Expanded...Three NIST Researchers Receive Presidential Honor

October 27, 1997 NIST's William Phillips Awarded 1997 Physics Prize...Tenth Baldrige Award Given to Four U.S. Companies...1997 Baldrige Awardees Share Winning Ways at QE X...New Study Finds Program Speeds Technology Development...'Take Five' to Learn About NIST in New Video.....New Partnership Gets Industry Support...Calorimeter Makes Better Gas and Liquid Measurements

October 14, 1997 1997 Competitions Yield 64 Technology Partnerships...New Standard Is Freeze-Dried What?...NIST Research Shows Nanocomposites Can Take the Heat...Research May Help Hunt for Interstellar Iron...New Standard Is Boon to 'Smart' Sensors..Irish/Old Bay Combo Helps Labs Assess Ocean Radioactivity

September 29, 1997 Algorithms Sought for Advanced Encryption Standard ..New NIST Database Available for Evaluating Rocket Fuel Propellants...FQA Status: Changes Proposed, More Labs Accredited...Room Temperature Methane Detector Developed...New Advisory Board to Guide MEP...Software Improves Processing of Near-Field Measurements

September 15, 1997 Kammer to be Nominated as NIST Director...'Virtual' Fires Could Save Real Buildings, People...Special Thermometers Increase Radiometer's Sensitivity...Wanted: Input on Rapid Prototyping Issues...Improved Substrate Measurements Use NDT...Paper Shows How to Model Thermodynamic Properties

September 2, 1997 New Imaging Technique Strong on Power, Gentle on Samples...Baldrige Teams Will Examine 11 for 1997 Award...Partners Seek Better Technology Through the Laser Glass...NIST/NSA Team to Enhance Info Security Quality...Antenna Reduces Ambient Field Calibration Errors...Stable Retarder Is Newest SRM for Optics Industry

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