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Memorandum of Understanding between the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

March 29, 2002

I. BACKGROUND Every year, millions of Americans face disaster, and its terrifying consequences. Natural perils of extreme winds, fires, earthquakes, floods...

NIST, FEMA Strengthen Disaster Response and Research Capabilities

March 29, 2002

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today announced the signing...

Results of 1991 - 2000 Baldrige Award Recipients 10-Year Common Stock Comparison

March 7, 2002

Methodology: A hypothetical sum was invested in each of the 1991-2000, publicly-traded Baldrige Award recipient's common stock, in the year they applied for the...

Baldrige Award Winners Beat the S&P 500 for Eighth Year

March 7, 2002

U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans today announced the "Baldrige Index" has once again outperformed the Standard & Poor's 500. The announcement was made at a...

President and Commerce Secretary Present Two Companies, Three Education Organizations With Nation's Highest Honor in Quality and Performance Excellence

March 7, 2002

Photos from ceremony Remarks by the President President George W. Bush and Commerce Secretary Don Evans today honored five organizations, including the first in...

Federal Agencies Double Their Use of Private-Sector Standards

March 4, 2002

A newly released, congressionally mandated report from the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) concludes that federal...

How Cold! New Partnership to Use Chilled Neutrons to Solve Cell Membrane Puzzles

February 19, 2002

Cell membrane researchers are eagerly bracing for a long-awaited cold wave. A new partnership involving the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST...

Commerce Secretary Don Evans Releases Recommendations to Improve the Advanced Technology Program (ATP)

February 4, 2002

Commerce Secretary Don Evans announced today the release of The Advanced Technology Program: Reform with a Purpose, a report that presents six recommendations...

NIST Materials Science Pioneer John Cahn To Receive Bower Award from Franklin Institute

January 28, 2002

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that materials scientist John Cahn will receive the 2002...

NIST Helps Ensure Well-Timed Sledding at Winter Olympics

January 2, 2002

Sliding down the icy side of a mountain on steel runners, racers in the bobsled, luge and skeleton events reach some of the highest speeds of any Olympic Winter...

Nationwide Network of Manufacturing Experts Issue Top 10 New Year's Resolutions for Small Business Manufacturers

December 14, 2001

The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is...

Commerce Secretary Announces New Standard for Global Information Security

December 4, 2001

Commerce Secretary Announces New Standard for Global Information Security (News Release) AES Questions and Answers Oct 2, 2000, News Release on Selection of AES...

Bement Confirmed by Senate As 12th NIST Director

November 30, 2001

The U.S. Senate today confirmed Arden L. Bement Jr. as director of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology. The position of...

Twenty-Nine Receive High Honors from Commerce Department for Work at NIST

November 9, 2001

Commerce Secretary Don Evans has presented 23 employees of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and six former employees...

NIST and ITA Launch New Online Service to Give U.S. Companies 'Heads Up' on Export Regulations

October 11, 2001

Two U.S. Department of Commerce agencies, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and International Trade Administration, today launched Export Alert...

Cornell and Wieman Share 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics

October 9, 2001

Quotes About the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics Winners Press Conference (Transcript) Bose-Einstein Condensate: A New Form of Matter (backgrounder) Nobel Prize in...

Press conference: Cornell and Wieman Answer Questions about the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics

October 9, 2001

The following text is a transcript of a press conference hosted by JILA on October 9, 2001. Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman of JILA answered questions from...

Bose-Einstein Condensate: A New Form of Matter

October 9, 2001

Capturing the "Holy Grail" Eric A. Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Carl E. Wieman of the University of Colorado at Boulder led...

NIST Launches New Information Technology Security Effort

October 2, 2001

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today awarded $5 million total in funding for nine research grants that will...

'Baldrige Index' Consistently Outperforms the S&P 500

April 6, 2001

For the past seven years, the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology has compared winners of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality...

From Supernova to Smoke Ring: Recent Experiments Underscore Weirdness of the Bose-Einstein Condensate

March 12, 2001

Bose-Einstein condensates can sometimes explode like a pocket-sized supernova, but when they're not doing that they can look like the inside of a cigar bar...

Implosion and explosion of a Bose-Einstein condensate "Bosenova"

March 12, 2001

In a Bose-Einstein condensate, virtually all the atoms in the ultra-cold gas fall into the lowest-energy quantum mechanical state. Spread out in space, they...

Decay of a dark soliton into vortex rings in a Bose-Einstein condensate

March 12, 2001

Vortices are fundamental excitations of gases and liquids. Well-known examples include tornados, whirlpools, and smoke rings. The main characteristic of...

National Institute of Standards and Technology Gears Up to Celebrate Centennial

February 15, 2001

What do gas pumps, truck scales, blood-cholesterol tests, DNA chips, industrial lasers, satellite antennas, aircraft altimeters and bullet-proof vests have in...

Survey Finds Small Manufacturers Are More Competitive, Productive Thanks to NIST MEP

February 14, 2001

Small manufacturing clients of the nationwide Manufacturing Extension Partnership are saving money, creating new jobs, and increasing and retaining sales at a...

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