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Baldrige Program Seeks Candidates for 2018 Baldrige Executive Fellows Program

September 28, 2017

The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is seeking qualified candidates for the 2018 Baldrige Executive Fellows Program, a one-year, nationally ranked...

Digital identity for individuals

Your digital identity Digital identity is your online persona. You may have one digital identity for email and another for online banking...

Lighting a Path to 'Smarter' Homes, Roads, and Bridges

September 27, 2017

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...

ICSP to Hold Open Seminar on Voluntary Standards in Government

December 14, 1993

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 Presents National Quality Award To Eastman Chemical, Ames Rubber

December 14, 1993

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...

NIST Develops Tests to Determine Fire Safety of Cigarettes

December 16, 1993

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...

NIST Offers Expanded Database on Properties of Alternative Refrigerants

January 5, 1994

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...

Partners Wanted To Help Create "Virtual Library"

January 7, 1994

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking industrial and academic partners to join a cooperative research consortium to develop technology...

Wozny Named New Head Of NIST Manufacturing Lab

January 14, 1994

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced that Michael J. Wozny is the new director of the technology agency's Manufacturing Engineering...

U.S.-Russian Trade to Benefit from International Lab Accreditation Program

January 31, 1994

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...

NIST Announces Voluntary Escrowed Encryption Standard To Promote Secure Telecommunications

February 4, 1994

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...

NIST Calls for Partners in Developing Key Escrowing Hardware

February 4, 1994

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today an opportunity to join a cooperative research consortium for...

Defense Conversion Funds Make Iowa Manufacturing Technology Center A Reality

February 16, 1994

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown and Congressman Neal Smith (D-Iowa), Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and...

U.S., Canada Renew Laboratory Accreditation Agreement To Spur International Trade

February 22, 1994

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...

NIST, Industry Partners Form Consortium To Help Building Systems Communicate

March 1, 1994

Nine control system manufacturers and one software company have joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology in a cooperative research and...

Commerce Acts on Industry's Call for Semiconductor Measurement Assistance

March 2, 1994

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...

Gaithersburg Campus Master Plan Public Information Meeting

May 11, 2017

Thank you. I’m pleased to be here to discuss our process for creating a 20-year master plan for NIST’s Gaithersburg campus. For anyone who’s not familiar...

Commerce Acts on Industry's Call for Semiconductor Measurement Assistance

March 2, 1994

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...

NIST and DOE Offer U.S.-Based Precision Measurement Service to Industry

March 2, 1994

Once available only from foreign laboratories, a precision measurement service for manufacturers of automobiles, aircraft, farm equipment, and other large...

Shield for Radiation Therapy Developed in Dental Program at NIST

March 16, 1994

A dental researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has invented a new shielding material and method for protecting healthy body tissues...

Federal Funds Available for State Technology Programs from NIST

March 17, 1994

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced funding is available for state projects to plan, coordinate and, in...

Improved Infrared Chemical Analysis Possible With New NIST Invention

March 28, 1994

A new device and technique recently patented by a National Institute of Standards and Technology scientist may lead to dramatic improvements in infrared...

NIST Names ASQC as Partner in Administering Baldrige Quality Award

March 31, 1994

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected the American Society for Quality Control as its contractor to help administer the Malcolm...

71 Companies in the Running for 1994 Baldrige Quality Award

April 18, 1994

The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced today that 71 companies have applied for the 1994 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. They...

NIST Scientists Help Visitors to the Smithsonian's Science in American Life Exhibition Learn About Lasers and Enzymes

April 18, 1994

How far away is the moon? How fast does light travel? How do detergent enzymes trounce laundry stains? Visitors to the Smithsonian's National Museum of...

National Conformity Assessment Program Established To Promote International Trade

April 25, 1994

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology has established the National Voluntary Conformity Assessment System Evaluation...

Software Innovations Announced For NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Database

April 25, 1994

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.-Russia Standards Group To Promote International Trade

April 25, 1994

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...

U.S.-Canada Agree to Recognize Test Results for Weighing and Measuring Devices

May 16, 1994

Weights and measures officials in the United States and Canada have agreed to mutual recognition of test results and examinations of weighing and measuring...

New Facility Opens as Part of 65-Year-Old Partnership to Improve Quality of Construction Materials

May 18, 1994

Government and construction industry officials today dedicated a new facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help improve the quality...

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