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NIST Presents Safety Awards to Two Fire Engineering Technicians

December 10, 1997

The National Institute of Standards and Technology today recognized two employees for superior efforts in creating and maintaining a safe working environment...

NIST Equal Employment Opportunity Award Goes to Sunder

December 10, 1997

Sivaraj Shyam Sunder, a resident of BETHESDA, Md., has received the Equal Employment Opportunity Award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Leedy Receives Uriano Award For Helping ATP Succeed

December 10, 1997

Thomas F. Leedy, a resident of CLARKSBURG, Md., and recently retired from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been presented the George A...

Pioneering Research In X-ray and Neutron Examination of Polymer Films Earns Stratton Award For Wu

December 10, 1997

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has presented the Samuel Wesley Stratton Award to Wen-Li Wu of the agency’s Materials Science and Engineering...

NIST Urges U.S. Companies to Use Baldrige Quality Award Process as Improvement Tool

December 18, 1997

American companies can improve the way they do business by applying for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, says the Commerce Department's National...

President Clinton Today Presents 1997 Baldrige Award to Four U.S. Companies

December 19, 1997

President Clinton and Commerce Secretary William Daley today presented the 1997 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award to four American companies in...

A NIST researcher holds a fixed length optical cavity (FLOC), a structure that enables highly accurate, quantum-based measurements of pressure.

NIST, Industry Partner Aim to Develop 'Quantum Pascal' Standard Into Real-World Device

September 6, 2017

In our everyday lives, pressure can mean a looming work deadline, a final exam, or bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth. In scientific terms, pressure is a...

Steel Beams under Localized Fire

A total of nine localized fire tests on steel beams were designed and conducted in the National Fire Research Laboratory as part of its...

NIST To Evaluate Evaluators of Water Quality Testing

January 16, 1998

The National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced draft guidelines to accredit commercial vendors to evaluate drinking and wastewater analysis...

'Baldrige Index' Outperforms S&P 500 For Fourth Year

February 9, 1998

For the fourth year in a row, the fictitious "Baldrige Index" has outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 by almost 3 to 1, says the Commerce Department’s...

2018 Disaster Resilience Symposium

Tue, Aug 14 - Wed, Aug 15 2018

The Engineering Laboratory at NIST, Gaithersburg, hosted a symposium featuring the 2016 Disaster Resilience Grant

Popular Business Performance Excellence Guide Now Available For Education Organizations

February 9, 1998

Criteria designed to help education organizations improve their services and overall performance are available now from the Commerce Department’s National...

Popular Business Performance Excellence Guide Now Available For Healthcare Provider Organizations

February 9, 1998

Criteria designed to help all healthcare organizations, such as managed care systems, hospitals and home healthcare agencies, improve their services, processes...

Popular Business Performance Excellence Guide Now Available For Healthcare, Education Organizations

February 9, 1998

Criteria designed to help healthcare and education organizations improve their processes and overall performance are available now from the Commerce Department...

NIST Offers Short Course to Help Industry to Better Measure Temperature

February 17, 1998

Many industrial managers and engineers know that the accuracy of their temperature measurements has a big impact on the quality of their products or the...

Fourteen Organizations to Receive Site Visits for 2017 Baldrige Award

August 28, 2017

Meeting last week at NIST, the Judges Panel for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) chose 14 organizations to proceed to Site Visit Review, the...

NIST 98 Provides Largest Ever Expansion and Improvement Of Mass Spectral Database

February 17, 1998

Analytical chemists now can take advantage of improved accuracy and a 75 percent expansion of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's popular mass...

Sunder Named Chief of Structures Division

March 18, 1998

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced the appointment of S. Shyam Sunder as chief of the Structures Division in...

Daley Says NIST to Help Small Manufacturers Avoid 'Millennium Bug'

May 11, 1998

The Manufacturing Extension Partnership and its nationwide network of centers are stepping up efforts to help smaller manufacturers avoid being bitten by the...

Thirty-Six U.S. Businesses Try For Nation's Top Award For Business Excellence

June 17, 1998

Thirty-six U.S. companies—up from 26 in 1997—including 15 large manufacturers, five service companies and 16 small businesses, have submitted applications for...

CEO Survey Finds 'Globalization' Among Top Challenges, U.S. Firms Doing Only Fair Job

July 2, 1998

While U.S. business executives believe that becoming a global company is an important trend, they also believe most U.S. companies are only doing a fair job at...

Advance Could Lead Eventually To Big Savings In Metal-Forming Industry

July 21, 1998

Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology are the first to succeed in using a new technique that shows precisely...

NIST Tool Will Help Small Manufacturers Exterminate 'Millennium Bug'

August 12, 1998

The Manufacturing Extension Partnership’s nationwide network of centers is offering a computer-based tool to help smaller manufacturers find and assess problems...

NIST Announces Candidates For New Data Scrambling Standard

August 20, 1998

Candidates for a new information scrambling code for the 21st century made their debut at an international cryptography conference today. The Commerce...

Industry, Standards, Government Leaders Call U.S. Standards Strategy Vital To U.S. Economic Growth, Global Competitiveness

September 24, 1998

Washington, D.C.—The U.S. economy will suffer unless American companies, standards-developing organizations and government agencies join together to realize a...

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Gaithersburg

NIST Presents Safety Awards to Two Fire Engineering Technicians

NIST Equal Employment Opportunity Award Goes to Sunder

Leedy Receives Uriano Award For Helping ATP Succeed

Pioneering Research In X-ray and Neutron Examination of Polymer Films Earns Stratton Award For Wu

NIST Urges U.S. Companies to Use Baldrige Quality Award Process as Improvement Tool

President Clinton Today Presents 1997 Baldrige Award to Four U.S. Companies

NIST, Industry Partner Aim to Develop 'Quantum Pascal' Standard Into Real-World Device

Steel Beams under Localized Fire

NIST To Evaluate Evaluators of Water Quality Testing

'Baldrige Index' Outperforms S&P 500 For Fourth Year

2018 Disaster Resilience Symposium

Popular Business Performance Excellence Guide Now Available For Education Organizations

Popular Business Performance Excellence Guide Now Available For Healthcare Provider Organizations

Popular Business Performance Excellence Guide Now Available For Healthcare, Education Organizations

NIST Offers Short Course to Help Industry to Better Measure Temperature

Fourteen Organizations to Receive Site Visits for 2017 Baldrige Award

NIST 98 Provides Largest Ever Expansion and Improvement Of Mass Spectral Database

Sunder Named Chief of Structures Division

Daley Says NIST to Help Small Manufacturers Avoid 'Millennium Bug'

Thirty-Six U.S. Businesses Try For Nation's Top Award For Business Excellence

CEO Survey Finds 'Globalization' Among Top Challenges, U.S. Firms Doing Only Fair Job

Advance Could Lead Eventually To Big Savings In Metal-Forming Industry

NIST Tool Will Help Small Manufacturers Exterminate 'Millennium Bug'

NIST Announces Candidates For New Data Scrambling Standard

Industry, Standards, Government Leaders Call U.S. Standards Strategy Vital To U.S. Economic Growth, Global Competitiveness

U.S. Commerce and Agriculture Departments Working To Help Small Manufacturers Address Y2K

Upgraded Web Site Helps Small Manufacturers Keep the Millennium Bug At Bay

Baldrige Quality Awards for Education, Healthcare Set for 1999

Sun Sets on Manufacturing Centers' Sixth-Year Funding Restriction

New Book Confronts Issues Challenging Semiconductor Industry