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Gaithersburg

Workforce

Engage and empower your people—they should be a competitive advantage. Hire and develop your workforce Support your workforce Offer ways to...

Data and Analysis

Use data and information to make decisions—your “gut instinct” will only take you so far. Decide on a few measures Start making decisions...

Customers

Engage your customers – they are the source of your business. What are your customer expectations Designing your products and services...

Strategy

Prepare for the future—or you won’t be in it. Strategy Develop specific objectives and measurable goals Identify and consider innovative...

Leadership

Share your vision and lead your organization—leadership is behavior and actions, not a position. Help workforce understand and achieve your...

Organizational Context

Start with a deeper understanding of your organization. Defining Your Mission and Vision What Groups of People Are Important What Are Your...
Frederick Meisenkothen portrait

2022 Bronze Medal Award

Dr. Meisenkothen is honored for the development of standards-based techniques for atom probe tomography. Application of these techniques enables nanometer-scale mass spectrometry and imaging to be performed with previously unattainable levels of...

NIST’s SBIR Program Could be for You

Fascination with technological innovation is built into America’s DNA. Today’s legions of U.S. scientific and engineering researchers are directly connected to...

MDKP-PWG Charter

Multi-Domain Knowledge Planes for Service Federation for 5G & Beyond Public Working Group (MDKP-PWG) I. MDKP-PWG Organizational Structure A...
Robot bin picking

NIST at the 2023 Automate Show

May 22-25, 2023 Booth #745 Huntington Place Convention Center Detroit, Michigan The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST)...
NIST JARVIS

JARVIS-ALIGNN, JARVIS-ALIGNN-FF

Our Atomistic Line Graph Neural Network (ALIGNN) models are designed to predict atomistic properties with high accuracy. They can successfully predict single
Headshot of Michelle Bailey

2022 - 5 Sigma Physicist Award---Michelle Bailey

Michelle Bailey is being recognized as a member of the joint Optica/APS Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations report panel. She moderated the launch-webinar for the report and organized a presentation on the report at the “ Metrology for...

Twenty‐Five Years Later

2013 marked the 25th‐anniversary of the Baldrige Program, now called the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program®. Since its not‐so‐humble...

Baldrige Spreads to the States

In the fall of 1987, Reimann said he received a visit from Connecticut resident Sheila Carmine who thought it would be interesting to launch...

The Board of Overseers

On March 4, 1988, the charter for the Board of Overseers of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award® was signed. The objectives and...

The First Baldrige Award Process

With the new Secretary of Commerce focusing on the new award, Reimann said they had extremely tight time requirements; the first Malcolm...
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