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Baldrige Quality Criteria for 1995 Streamlined; More in Line with Today's Business Thinking

October 20, 1994

The criteria for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award have been streamlined and changed for 1995 to focus more sharply on quality as an integral part of...

Three Companies Win 1994 Baldrige Quality Award

October 18, 1994

President Clinton announced today AT&T; Consumer Communications Services (Basking Ridge, N.J.), GTE Directories Corp. (Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas) and Wainwright...

NIST Addresses Practical, Legal Issues To Boost Digital Signature Use

October 11, 1994

As a vital next step in reinventing the government's use of information technology, the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Boeing Takes Measure Of NIST Quick-Test Method

September 29, 1994

Inspection and process-control improvements achievable with a testing tool developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology recently prompted the...

Low-Cost, Thin-Film Multijunction Thermal Converter Wins 1994 R&D; 100 Award

September 22, 1994

A multilayer, thin-film multijunction thermal converter, or MJTC, developed jointly by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Ballantine...

New NIST Solar Device May One Day Keep Americans In Hot Water

September 13, 1994

Researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology have invented a novel solar water heating system that is believed to be...

Tissue Engineering Workshop To Consider Commercialization Opportunities

September 12, 1994

Biomedical engineers, biomaterials researchers and medical device developers are among those who can benefit from a one-day tissue engineering workshop at the...

NIST Physicists Measure Coldest Temperature Ever

August 15, 1994

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—If it's too hot outside, a visit to the National Institute of Standards and Technology might provide some relief. Physicists here recently...

New NIST Medical-Industrial Radiation Facility Will Help Develop New Technologies, Establish Standards

August 12, 1994

A new facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is now available to ensure accurate radiation measurements in medicine and serve as a new...

Brown, Daley Sign Agreement to Launch New Center for Delivering Manufacturing Services to Chicago Businesses

July 22, 1994

U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley today signed a letter of partnership to officially dedicate the Chicago Manufacturing...

Consortium to Help U.S. Paint Industry Get Better Products to Market Faster

June 30, 1994

Three paint manufacturers and the Federal Highway Administration, a large user of paint products, have joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Brown, Cuomo Launch Expanded Technology Services For N.Y. Businesses

June 17, 1994

U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown and New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo today officially launched the New York Manufacturing Extension Partnership, an...

Expansion of Manufacturing Extension Center to Benefit NYC Small and Medium-Size Businesses

June 16, 1994

U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown today toured a New York City machine tool company to highlight a manufacturing outreach program that is expanding to...

New Version of Protein Crystal Database Includes NASA Space Experiments

June 3, 1994

A newly expanded database on crystal growth conditions of biological macromolecules is now available to help structural biology programs of the pharmaceutical...

Statement in Response to Blaze Key Escrow Paper

June 2, 1994

The draft paper by Matt Blaze* describes several techniques aimed at circumventing law enforcement access to key escrowed encryption products based on...

Quality Experts from Business, Health Care and Education Needed for 1995 Baldrige Quality Award Board of Examiners

June 2, 1994

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking quality experts from all sectors of American business, as well as from non-profit health care and...

NIST's New 'Electronic Eye' Improves Accuracy For Lighting Industry

May 31, 1994

In colonial times, lamp makers relied on whale oil-based candles as a standard measure of light. Today, a new "electronic eye" developed at the National...

NIST Announces Accreditation for Calibration Labs Based on International Standards

May 31, 1994

The National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology now will accept applications...

Wait A Second, Let's Not Leap Into This Until June 30!

May 24, 1994

"I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark." – Thomas Hobbes, last words "Look ere ye leap." – Proverbs, John Heywood " Nature does not...

NIST Announces "Digital Signature" Standard For Computer Security

May 20, 1994

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced approval of a Digital Signature Standard, which will allow federal...

Price Verification Tops Technical Program At NCWM 79th Annual Meeting

May 20, 1994

The 79th Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures, July 17-21, 1994, in San Diego, Calif., will feature a special technical session on...

New Facility Opens as Part of 65-Year-Old Partnership to Improve Quality of Construction Materials

May 18, 1994

Government and construction industry officials today dedicated a new facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help improve the quality...

U.S.-Canada Agree to Recognize Test Results for Weighing and Measuring Devices

May 16, 1994

Weights and measures officials in the United States and Canada have agreed to mutual recognition of test results and examinations of weighing and measuring...

Software Innovations Announced For NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Database

April 25, 1994

Two important software innovations have been made to the NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Database, a major international resource for analytical chemists and...

National Conformity Assessment Program Established To Promote International Trade

April 25, 1994

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology has established the National Voluntary Conformity Assessment System Evaluation...

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