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NIST in Your State

NIST in Oregon

NIST ensures that the U.S. economy runs on fair transactions, that our infrastructure is built with quality construction materials, that our manufacturers can innovate and compete internationally, and that we have access to reliable products at home. We provide critical measurements and standards, including nearly 600 calibration services and more than 1,100 standard reference materials, that make Americans safer and healthier and help our companies innovate.

Below you will see a small snippet of what NIST is doing in Oregon. More information about how NIST is supporting key sectors in Oregon will be added to this page in the future.

CHIPS Funding

Analog Devices Inc. (Oregon)

Proposed Award Amount
up to $105 million in proposed funding (split across Chelmsford, MA, Beaverton, OR, and Camas, WA)
CHIPS Organization
CHIPS Program Office
CHIPS for America’s proposed investment in Oregon would support the expansion of front-end mature node semiconductor manufacturing for devices used in a wide variety of applications, including but not limited to automotive, industrial, and defense applications.

The Provenance Chain Network

Award Amount
$283,427
CHIPS Organization
CHIPS SBIR
Develop a reference implementation of the Commercial Trust™ Protocol (CTP) to manage verifiable credentials (VCs), metrology, and intellectual property, enhancing hardware security, and provenance tracking of microelectronic components across supply chains. This project will benefit the U.S. microelectronics supply chain industry.

HP Inc. (Oregon)

Award Amount
$53 million in direct funding
CHIPS Organization
CHIPS Program Office
The CHIPS for America award will provide HP up to $53 million in total direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act to support the expansion and modernization of HP’s existing facility in Corvallis, Oregon, which is part of the company’s “lab-to-fab” ecosystem in the region that spans from research and development (“R&D”) activities to commercial manufacturing operations.

MEP Success Stories

Wild Carrot Herbals: Blossoming in Enterprise, Oregon

Reported Year
2024
As demand for their artisanal products grew, Wild Carrot Herbals faced the challenge of scaling production to keep up with demand, while maintaining the quality and ethos that had become their hallmark. Initially, Jody believed relocating from Enterprise, Oregon, with a population of 2,100, to a larger facility in Central Oregon was the solution to

OpEx & Supply Chain

Reported Year
2024
The company faced a rapid increase in demand for a new product line. Due to several product design revisions and the newness of the novel production process, the company sought assistance from OMEP, part of the MEP National Network™, to reduce waste on the line.

Lightspeed Product Development

Reported Year
2024
For decades Lightspeed has relied on a single, though reliable, supply chain partner to meet large percentage of their demanding operational needs. However, this crucial partner decided to close its doors in 2024 giving Lightspeed little time to strategically rethink and redesign its supply chain and new product introduction practices to both

News & Updates

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