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Associate Director for Innovation & Industry Services

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New Funding for Massachusetts to Serve the State’s Manufacturers

October 6, 2016

As part of a multiyear effort to make the most of its federal investment in U.S. manufacturing, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has...

Baldrige Program Seeks Candidates for 2017 Baldrige Executive Fellows Program

September 29, 2016

The Baldrige Program is seeking qualified candidates for the 2017 Baldrige Executive Fellows Program, which is a one-year, nationally ranked leadership...

NIST Organizes Challenge to Uncover Impacts of Federal Lab Research

September 27, 2016

From GPS to genetics, sensors to cell phones, many of today’s technological advances have been enabled or developed through federal research programs. Of the...

NIST Releases Baldrige-Based Tool for Cybersecurity Excellence

September 15, 2016

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released today the draft Baldrige Cybersecurity...

Pilot Projects Will Bring MEP Small-Business Expertise to Manufacturing USA Institutes

September 13, 2016

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded approximately $5 million to pilot several projects that will...

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker Announces Manufacturing USA: New Brand for National Network for Manufacturing Innovation

September 12, 2016

CHICAGO — Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced that “Manufacturing USA” is the new brand name for the National Network for Manufacturing...

NIST Awards Funding to Support Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers

September 1, 2016

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will award more than $36 million in annual funding to organizations in 11...

Words MFG Day. Underneath: words "official endorser"

How the Baldrige Program Supports Manufacturing Day 2016

August 31, 2016

Helping to connect U.S. school children (the workforce of the future) with manufacturers, and providing manufacturers with a performance excellence framework...

Fifteen Organizations to Receive Site Visits for 2016 Baldrige Award

August 22, 2016

The Judges Panel for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) chose 15 organizations to proceed to Site Visit Review, the final stage of the...

Pilot Product Will Offer the Baldrige Site Visit Experience

August 1, 2016

For years, the Baldrige Program has heard from its award applicants that the most valuable and robust feedback comes when the organization is site visited by a...

Commerce Secretary Appoints New Members to Baldrige Award's Judges Panel

July 25, 2016

Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker recently appointed four new members to three-year terms on the Judges Panel for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award...

Baldrige Program Director Describes Collaboration and Aim for New Cybersecurity Assessment Tool

July 12, 2016

The Baldrige Program is partnering with the Applied Cybersecurity Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a Baldrige...

U.S. Commerce Department Awards Small Businesses $3.3 Million for Innovation Research

July 6, 2016

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced that 19 small businesses will receive nearly $3.3 million...

NIST Launches Competition for Manufacturing Centers in 11 States

June 30, 2016

As part of a multiyear effort to refresh its Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) centers across the country, the U.S. Commerce Department's...

2016 Baldrige Case Study Depicts Online Retailer Facing Some Familiar Challenges

June 28, 2016

What does a high-performing online retail business look like that is using the Baldrige Excellence Framework to improve and excel? What lessons can other...

Thirty-Four Organizations Apply for the 2016 Baldrige Award

May 16, 2016

Thirty-four organizations from a wide range of sectors and U.S. states have submitted applications for the 2016 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award...

Peer Network of Executives Ends Fellowship with Leadership and its Challenges Addressed

April 25, 2016

The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is proud to announce the completion of the year-long Baldrige Executive Fellows Program by 15 senior leaders...

NIST MEP to Help Small Manufacturers Engage with Manufacturing Innovation Institutes

April 22, 2016

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will provide up to $7 million in funding for pilot projects to benefit small U.S. manufacturers by...

Benefits of the Baldrige Framework in U.S. Health Care: A Summary of Recent News

April 18, 2016

Benefits of using the Baldrige Excellence Framework in U.S. health care organizations are well established. Recent news stories and other publications and media...

MidwayUSA representatives receive 2015 Baldrige Award.

Commerce Deputy Secretary Andrews Honors Four Organizations with 2015 Baldrige Award

April 7, 2016

Describing them as "the nation's role models for excellence," U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Bruce Andrews presented four U.S. organizations on April 3, 2016...

Large Turnout for Funding Opportunity Briefing for DOC-Funded Manufacturing Institutes — Video Available Online

March 18, 2016

On Tuesday, March 8th, 2016, the NIST Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) hosted over 200 participants for a Proposers' Day, where the attendees learned the...

New Cohort Selected for Prestigious Baldrige Executive Fellows Program

March 17, 2016

Eighteen executives have been selected to the prestigious Baldrige Executive Fellows Program, the only executive leadership fellowship that provides one-on-one...

Seeking Input on the Baldrige Excellence Framework

February 29, 2016

What are the top leading-edge strategic and competitiveness challenges you are facing in your organization (or seeing in the organizations you work with)? What...

NIST Announces Funding Opportunity for NNMI Manufacturing Innovation Institutes

February 19, 2016

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced a competition to award its first...

Now Posted: State-by-State Baldrige Impact Data for 2016

February 11, 2016

The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP) at NIST released data this week that document the scope of services provided to U.S. organizations in every...

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