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Federal Labs Consortium to Host Annual Meeting (Virtually)

August 31, 2020

The Federal Labs Consortium (FLC) was formally chartered by the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 in order to develop a community of technology transfer

2020 Baldrige Award Judges Select Nine U.S. Organizations for First-Ever Virtual Site Visits

August 24, 2020

Nine U.S. organizations were recently selected to receive fall site visits, the final stage of the evaluation process for the 2020 Malcolm Baldrige National

From the Public to the Private Sector: NSTEP

June 25, 2020

The NIST-Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Program (N-STEP) was founded, through a partnership between NIST and TEDCO, for the purpose of providing

Selfie of John Bittman while deployed in the U.S. military

The Jump from Airborne to NIST

June 2, 2020

by John Bittman, Interagency Policy Specialist I never expected the knowledge, skills, or abilities I gained as an airborne infantryman to be very transferrable