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Requirements for Laboratory Accreditation Bodies

The Laboratory Accreditation Body (AB) shall: be physically located in the United States, be a signatory, in good standing, to a mutual...

Award Goes to NJ Center to Improve Competitiveness of Smaller Food Manufacturers

October 3, 1996

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced a grant to the Center for Advanced Food Technology at Rutgers...

Two Awards to Help MEP Centers Better Manage Human Resources, Evaluate Benefits to Communities Served

October 7, 1996

Two awards announced today by the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology will help affiliates of the nationwide Manufacturing...

Four U.S. Companies Named Today as Winners of the 1996 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

October 16, 1996

President Clinton and Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor today announced the winners of the 1996 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in recognition of their...

NIST Assumes Leadership Role in International Laboratory Accreditation

October 16, 1996

Representatives from accrediting bodies in 44 nations have elected a standards and conformity assessment official from the Commerce Department's National...

President Clinton Announces Winners of the 1996 Baldrige Quality Awards

October 16, 1996

The President today announced the winners of the 1996 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Dana Commercial Credit Corporation of Toledo, Ohio; ADAC...

MEP Centers to Develop Environmental Assistance Networks in 16 States

October 17, 1996

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced that 16 affiliates of its Manufacturing Extension Partnership will...

1998 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science - Bill Phillips

Phillips was chosen "for pioneering experiments in laser cooling and trapping, including the first demonstrations of Zeeman cooling, the magnetic trapping of neutral atoms and the extension of laser cooling below the Doppler limit."

Smoky Mountains Go Solar with Joint Venture to Test NIST Water Heater in Tennessee

October 24, 1996

A novel solar water heating system developed by the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology is now hard at work in Great Smoky...

NIST To Fund New York Manufacturing Extension Partnership

November 7, 1996

The Clinton Administration today announced that the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology will provide $4.9 million in funding...

NIST To Fund North/East Pennsylvania Manufacturing Extension Partnership

November 7, 1996

The Clinton Administration today announced that the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology will provide $1.6 million in funding...

NIST To Fund Tennessee Manufacturing Extension Partnership

November 7, 1996

The Clinton Administration today announced that the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology will provide $1.8 million in funding...

NIST To Fund Oklahoma Alliance For Manufacturing Excellence

November 14, 1996

The Clinton Administration today announced that the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology will provide $1.5 million in funding...

MEP Centers Get Boost In Addressing Smaller Manufacturers' Information Technology Needs

November 19, 1996

Small and medium-sized manufacturers soon will find it easier to resolve their information technology needs through a network of resources being established for...

New Directory of U.S. Standards Activities Now Available

November 25, 1996

A new edition of the directory of Standards Activities of Organizations in the United States (SP 806) has been published by the Commerce Department's National...

Synthetic Auto Exhaust Helps Car Makers Go With The Flow

December 3, 1996

Why would an environmentally concerned federal agency synthesize auto exhaust? Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and...

U.S. Companies May Apply Now For The 1997 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

December 6, 1996

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is inviting applications from American companies for the 1997 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The...

New Laboratory To Boost Computer, Network Use With Tests For Information Technology

December 9, 1996

U.S. industries and companies that produce information technology as well as those who count on it for reliable health care, efficiency in small businesses...

Twelve Awards Made for Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs)

September 1, 2017

The U.S Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has made 12 awards as part of two...

Even Better than DNA Origami

September 1, 2017

DNA is the stuff of life, but it is also the stuff of nanotechnology. Because molecules of DNA with complementary chemical structures recognize and bind to one...

2015 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Recipient - Gretchen Campbell

Campbell was chosen for "her pioneering contributions to the study of superfluidity in atomic-gas Bose-Einstein condensates, realizing atomic analogs to superconducting and superfluid liquid circuitry, including the use of weak links to create the...

2015 I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics - Ian Spielman

Spielman was cited for "the development of quantum simulations using ultra-cold atoms, creation of synthetic electromagnetic fields, demonstration of synthetic spin-orbit coupling, and applications to studying new physical systems." Previous winners...

2006 Career Achievement Medal - Bill Phillips

Phillips was cited for having "launched an entirely new subfield of atomic, molecular and optical physics," as well as being the first federal employee to win the Nobel Prize for Physics for work done as part of his official duties. Phillips shared...

2005 Presidential Rank Award - Bill Phillips

NIST Fellow William D. Phillips, 1997 Nobel Laureate in physics, is a distinguished recipient of a 2005 Presidential Rank Award for exceptional long-term accomplishments, the most prestigious award given to senior executives and senior professionals...

Alix Rodowa wears safety glasses and gloves in the lab as she reaches for a container of clear liquid on top of a piece of scientific equipment.

Pay, Benefits and Leave

Many other federal agencies classify employees using the General Schedule (GS) system . At NIST, most employees are covered under the...

NIST Begins Process to Develop Advanced Encryption Standard

January 2, 1997

The National Institute of Standards and Technology today launched a participatory process with American industry to develop an Advanced Encryption Standard. The...

NIST Cast Iron Standard Is Gold To Steel Industry For 90 Years

January 14, 1997

As scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology well know, standards come and go. Since its start in 1901, NIST (then known as the National...

New NIST Measurement Technique Gives Industry "Clearer View" of Better Flat-Panel Displays

January 24, 1997

Just how black is the black in that flat-panel display? Until recently, manufacturers and users of high-contrast electronic displays, such as those used in...

1997 Nobel Prize in Physics - Bill Phillips

Their work combined to create some of the most important technologies of modern atomic physics, which thousands of researchers worldwide employ today for a wide variety of applications. Phillips began his experiments with laser trapping and cooling...

FY 1998 Budget Proposes Funding to Establish Education, Health Care Quality Awards

February 7, 1997

Education and health care organizations would have their own award categories as part of President Clinton's fiscal year 1998 budget proposal for the Malcolm...

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