Awarded to 5 percent of career SES or SES equivalents, Meritorious Rank recipients are recognized for outstanding achievement to enhance the mission of their agency.
Charles Romine is recognized for his leadership in transforming the NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) into the nation’s leading institution conducting research in information technology metrology, including a broad range of areas such as cybersecurity, quantum information, biometrics and cloud computing. ITL also provides practical information, distilled from its fundamental and applied research in computer science, mathematics and statistics, in order to help organizations in government and the private sector better use and manage technology.