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2023 Silver Medal Award
AWARD CITATION
The Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs led NIST's outreach and engagement with staff in the House and Senate oversight committees to ensure that provisions of significant benefit to NIST's scientific and operations endeavors were included in the CHIPS + Science Act. The NIST team engaged in difficult and at times delicate negotiations with House Science and Senate Commerce staff to ensure that critical authorities for NIST like Other Transaction Authority, Special Hiring Authority, and expansions of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership and Manufacturing USA programs were included in the final version of the CHIPS + Science Act.