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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
Aves D. Thompson, chief of operations in the Alaska Division of Measurement Standards and Commercial Vehicle Enforcement, will be installed as chairman of the
Leslie E. Smith, a nearly 30-year veteran of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been appointed as the director of the agency’s Materials
The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology will publish in tomorrow’s Federal Register the amended final rule for the Fastener
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced that Steven A . Malone, director of the Nebraska Department of Agriculture's Weights and
The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced the appointment of S. Shyam Sunder as chief of the Structures Division in
When the remains of the RMS Titanic were discovered more than two miles beneath the surface of the North Atlantic in 1985, the story of the great liner once
Analytical chemists now can take advantage of improved accuracy and a 75 percent expansion of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's popular mass
Many industrial managers and engineers know that the accuracy of their temperature measurements has a big impact on the quality of their products or the
Criteria designed to help healthcare and education organizations improve their processes and overall performance are available now from the Commerce Department
Criteria designed to help all healthcare organizations, such as managed care systems, hospitals and home healthcare agencies, improve their services, processes
Criteria designed to help education organizations improve their services and overall performance are available now from the Commerce Department’s National
For the fourth year in a row, the fictitious "Baldrige Index" has outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 by almost 3 to 1, says the Commerce Department’s
President Clinton’s fiscal year 1999 budget request for the Commerce Department’s Technology Administration is $725 million, Commerce Secretary William Daley
A new study by the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology reveals important new details on the Advanced Technology Program’s role
The Commerce Department's Advanced Technology Program today opened a new competition for funding to develop broadly enabling, technically challenging new
Non-profit education and healthcare organizations will be able to apply for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award next year if funding is approved as part
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology soon will begin work on an advanced laser-cooled cesium atomic clock that will be placed on