September 16, 2020
      
                  
        
  Author(s)
  Nicole K. Gingrich,   Isaac  Patterson,   Jimmy  Nazario-Negron,   Michael J. Hall
 
       
            
    
    
        This study analyzes data from fiscal years 2015 through 2018 of eighteen interaction types in which NIST participates annually. To describe the volume of direct relationships NIST has with the U.S. economy, it calculates the average number of interactions