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The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is seeking qualified candidates for the 2018 Baldrige Executive Fellows Program, a one-year, nationally ranked...
If you’re worried about carbon monoxide poisoning, you might purchase a detector for your home. But what if your house itself could sense carbon monoxide and...
The Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-119, "Federal Participation in the Development and Use of Voluntary Standards," encourages government use of...
President Clinton today presented the nation's top award for excellence in quality management—the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award—to two U.S. companies...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed two tests that can be used to measure the likelihood that a cigarette will...
A newly expanded database on the physical properties of alternative refrigerants will help U.S. industry convert from chemicals that are thought to harm the...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking industrial and academic partners to join a cooperative research consortium to develop technology...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced that Michael J. Wozny is the new director of the technology agency's Manufacturing Engineering...
In an effort to expand trade between the United States and Russia, the Commerce Department`s National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced that...
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today the approval of a voluntary standard that can be used by...
The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today an opportunity to join a cooperative research consortium for...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown and Congressman Neal Smith (D-Iowa), Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and...
The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Standards Council of Canada today renewed an agreement to help...
Nine control system manufacturers and one software company have joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology in a cooperative research and...
U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown today announced that the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is entering into an...
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown today announced that the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is entering into an...
Once available only from foreign laboratories, a precision measurement service for manufacturers of automobiles, aircraft, farm equipment, and other large...
A dental researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has invented a new shielding material and method for protecting healthy body tissues...
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced funding is available for state projects to plan, coordinate and, in...
A new device and technique recently patented by a National Institute of Standards and Technology scientist may lead to dramatic improvements in infrared...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected the American Society for Quality Control as its contractor to help administer the Malcolm...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced today that 71 companies have applied for the 1994 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. They...
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Visitors to the Smithsonian's National Museum of...
The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology has established the National Voluntary Conformity Assessment System Evaluation...
Two important software innovations have been made to the NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Database, a major international resource for analytical chemists and...
U.S. and Russian participants at the third meeting of the Intergovernmental U.S./Russian Business Development Committee's Standards Working Group in Moscow, May...
Weights and measures officials in the United States and Canada have agreed to mutual recognition of test results and examinations of weighing and measuring...
Government and construction industry officials today dedicated a new facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help improve the quality...