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Quality Experts Needed for 1996 Baldrige Award Board of Examiners

August 7, 1995

The Commerce Department s National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking quality experts from all sectors of American business, as well as from non...

Images Reveal Tiny Flaws in Films for Solar Panels and Large Flat-Panel Displays

July 27, 1995

Using a specially constructed instrument system, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder...

Smaller Massachusetts Manufacturers to Get Help in Becoming 'Environmentally Competitive'

July 17, 1995

The Commerce Department s National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced that small and medium-sized Massachusetts manufacturers will get help...

Physicists Create New State of Matter at Record Low Temperature

July 13, 1995

Physicists in Boulder, Colo., have achieved a temperature far lower than has ever been produced before and created an entirely new state of matter predicted...

Twenty-Nine Concrete Testing Labs Mark 66 Years Of Quality

June 28, 1995

Being the best over many consecutive years doesn't come easily. The Boston Celtics and Chicago Bulls are the only professional basketball teams to win more than...

Commerce's NIST Celebrates 40 Years of Semiconductor Research in Partnership with Industry

June 21, 1995

The Commerce Department and the U.S. semiconductor industry next month will celebrate the 40th anniversary of a partnership in a field that has enabled such...

New DNA Quality Assurance Standard Helps Ensure Accuracy Of DNA Profiling

June 14, 1995

A new federal DNA quality assurance standard will help forensic and medical laboratories ensure that DNA profiles made by the fastest and most popular profiling...

NIST Seeks Proposals For New Manufacturing Extension Centers

June 8, 1995

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology is inviting not-for-profit organizations to submit proposals for new manufacturing...

Statement by Commerce Secretary Brown: Manufacturing Extension Partnership Highlights the Success of Public-Private Partnerships

June 8, 1995

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today's announcement of the competition for new centers in the Manufacturing Extension Partnership network is the beginning of a process that...

Sixty-Five U.S. Health Care, Education Groups Send in Applications for Baldrige Quality Award Pilots

May 30, 1995

Forty-six health care and 19 education organizations have submitted applications as part of pilot programs to determine whether the Malcolm Baldrige National...

New Home Page Tells All About National Information Infrastructure

May 18, 1995

In an effort to help Americans better understand benefits of the emerging National Information Infrastructure (NII), the Clinton Administration's Information...

Neutron Lifetime Measurements Give Clues on Origin of the Universe

April 20, 1995

Precise measurements of the neutron lifetime are yielding clues about how subatomic particles coalesced into the elements that formed our universe after the so...

Fire Safety in Health Care Facilities Is Now Cause for 'Alarm'

April 13, 1995

Helping fire safety officers and building managers at health care facilities achieve cost-effective compliance with a widely accepted fire safety code is the...

Consortium to Evaluate Performance of Tape-Bonded Seams for Sealing EPDM Roofing Membranes

April 11, 1995

Five companies and two trade associations have joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology in a cooperative research consortium to evaluate the...

IBM and NIST Launch Cooperative Effort to Develop Applications for Advanced Physics Research

March 15, 1995

SOMERS, N.Y.—IBM and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Physics Laboratory today announced a three-year cooperative research and development...

Windows^TM Version of Popular NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Database Now Available

March 5, 1995

A new version of a popular computer database for analytical chemists and environmental scientists is now available for use with Microsoft® Windows TM software...

NIST Chemical Kinetics Database For PC Users Expanded

February 27, 1995

Environmental scientists, research chemists, combustion engineers and process chemists can search for data on 9,200 chemical reactions in an expanded database...

NIST Issues Criteria for Baldrige Quality Award Pilot Programs in Education and Health Care

February 3, 1995

Criteria designed to help education and health care organizations improve their services were announced today by the Commerce Department s National Institute of...

Quality Management Proves To Be a Sound Investment, Says NIST

February 3, 1995

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology said today that investing in quality management can result in an impressive payoff....

Quality Management Proves to be a Sound Investment, Says NIST

February 3, 1995

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology said today that investing in quality management can result in an impressive payoff...

NIST to Support Environmental Assistance to Smaller Manufacturers

January 17, 1995

Deputy Commerce Secretary David J. Barram today announced a Department of Commerce program aimed at helping the nation's 370,000 small and medium-size...

Vice President Gore and Commerce Secretary Brown Present 1994 Baldrige Quality Award to Three U.S. Companies

December 5, 1994

Vice President Al Gore and Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown today presented three U.S. companies the 1994 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation...

Comparison Of UV Measurements Will Improve Forecasts

November 14, 1994

A recently completed Commerce Department field test will help environmental scientists worldwide more accurately measure ground-level changes in damaging...

Commerce Department and Massachusetts Launch New System for Delivering Technology Services to Commonwealth Businesses

November 4, 1994

The U.S. Department of Commerce and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts today officially dedicated the Massachusetts Manufacturing Partnership (MMP), an...

Commerce Department Announces 15 Federal Grants For State Technology Projects

October 31, 1994

The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced 15 awards under the State Technology Extension Program component of the department's Manufacturing Extension...

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