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Physical Measurement Laboratory

Office of Weights and Measures

OWM Hosts NCWM Leadership for NIST Campus Visit

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Group photo of Don Onwiler, G. Diane Lee, David Sefcik, Tina Butcher, Katrice Lippa, and Mahesh Albuquerque in front of green screen in Studio 220.
From left to right: Don Onwiler, G. Diane Lee, David Sefcik, Tina Butcher, Katrice Lippa, and Mahesh Albuquerque during the NIST visit.

OWM was pleased to host National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM) leadership, Don Onwiler, Executive Director, and Mahesh Albuquerque, Chair of the NCWM, for a visit to NIST Gaithersburg, MD campus this September 2022. Don and Mahesh met with several of the OWM staff to discuss current topics related to NCWM committee work, ideas for improving weights and measures training, and other potential NIST-NCWM activities.

They also met with Rich Montgomery, OWM’s new AV Production Specialist, and toured the new OWM video “Studio 220” currently under development. Many new training videos and live streaming products are underway (see "OWM Launches Studio 220 for Inhouse Training Video and Event Production"), and the team brainstormed ideas for future virtual training products via a collaboration between NCWM and NIST OWM.

Group photo of Don Onwiler, Rich Montgomery, and Mahesh Albuquerque in OWM’s Studio 220.
From left to right: Don Onwiler, Rich Montgomery, and Mahesh Albuquerque in OWM’s Studio 220.

Last, but not least, Don, Mahesh, and Katrice met with NIST Counsel to discuss our mutual interest in updating the Memorandum of Understanding between NCWM and NIST as we continue our long history of collaboration. We look forward to strengthening our partnership and working cooperatively towards the same goal of promoting equity and uniformity in U.S. weights and measures.

Metrology, Metric and Weights and measures
Created September 30, 2022