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The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced the opening of its 1999 competition to choose innovative industrial R&D
Small manufacturers will find it easier to determine whether embedded devices in factory-floor systems have a year 2000 date problem thanks to a recently formed
A wide range of issues important to the U.S. semiconductor industry—and a strategy to correct what some experts see as a potentially dangerous trend of
Manufacturing Extension Partnership centers around the nation that help small manufacturers to be more productive and competitive now can receive federal
Education and healthcare organizations will be eligible to take full advantage of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 1999 as a result of legislation
President Clinton yesterday signed into law an appropriations bill covering key technology partnering and policy programs carried out by the Commerce Department
National Y2K Action Week, Oct. 19-23, 1998 New resources, tools and references are among the features on the improved Manufacturing Extension Partnership web
National Y2K Action Week, Oct. 19-23, 1998 Efforts to help small manufacturers in rural America find and assess problems caused by the year 2000 computer
The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology announced in today’s Federal Register that the Secretary of Commerce will prepare a
New technologies to provide stand-alone sources of clean, reliable electric power; a possible method to restore nerve function to victims of spinal-cord
The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology announced in today’s Federal Register that the implementation date of regulations under
Modifications to the project selection criteria used by the Commerce Department’s Advanced Technology Program will simplify the criteria to more accurately
Washington, D.C.—The U.S. economy will suffer unless American companies, standards-developing organizations and government agencies join together to realize a
Scientists analyzing polymers as possible insulators for advanced microchips were surprised to learn that the materials behave much differently when they are in
Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology have devised a new method and built a new instrument to aid in the search
The Manufacturing Extension Partnership’s nationwide network of centers is offering a computer-based tool to help smaller manufacturers find and assess problems
Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology are the first to succeed in using a new technique that shows precisely
While U.S. business executives believe that becoming a global company is an important trend, they also believe most U.S. companies are only doing a fair job at
The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology announced today that the implementation date for the Fastener Quality Act of 1990
Thirty-six U.S. companies—up from 26 in 1997—including 15 large manufacturers, five service companies and 16 small businesses, have submitted applications for
The Manufacturing Extension Partnership and its nationwide network of centers are stepping up efforts to help smaller manufacturers avoid being bitten by the
The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology announced today that it has ended a long-standing program for evaluating energy-related
"The United States needs an effective national standards strategy if we are to compete effectively in the global market," Raymond Kammer, director of the
As an initial step toward removing any measurement-related barriers to trade between the United States and the European Union—and eliminate "double testing" of