National Conformity Assessment Program Established To Promote International Trade

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News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced today that 71 companies have applied for the 1994 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. They include 23 manufacturing firms, 18 service companies and 30 small businesses. Last year, 76 companies applied and two won.

News Release: The Commerce Department today announced a new action plan that significantly advances the federal government's transition to the metric system and will help U.S. companies become more competitive in the global marketplace.

News Release: A computer model developed by National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers can substantially improve the cutting accuracy of a piston-turning machine used by U.S. automakers, according to results of recent tests conducted at NIST for Giddings & Lewis-maker of the high-precision machine tool-General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., and the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, which managed and funded the collaboration.

News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected the American Society for Quality Control as its contractor to help administer the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

News Release: A new device and technique recently patented by a National Institute of Standards and Technology scientist may lead to dramatic improvements in infrared spectroscopy, a process used to identify and quantify the components making up a chemical sample.

News Release: PITTSBURGH-Using ultrafast optics and lasers, physicists and chemists are opening a portal through which they can view the subtlest and quickest changes in atomic motions.

News Release: The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced a new competition to support innovative industrial research projects under the Advanced Technology Program.

News Release: The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced funding is available for state projects to plan, coordinate and, in special cases, to implement technology extension activities. The request was announced in today's Federal Register.

News Release: A dental researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has invented a new shielding material and method for protecting healthy body tissues from radiation during therapy.

News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown today announced that the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is entering into an historic partnership to support the U.S. semiconductor industry with the establishment of the "National Semiconductor Metrology Program."

News Release: Once available only from foreign laboratories, a precision measurement service for manufacturers of automobiles, aircraft, farm equipment, and other large products is now being offered in the United States, thanks to a growing collaboration between the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Energy's Centers for Manufacturing Technologies at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant.

News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown today announced that the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is entering into an historic partnership to support the U.S. semiconductor industry with the establishment of the "National Semiconductor Metrology Program."

News Release: Nine control system manufacturers and one software company have joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology in a cooperative research and development consortium to help overcome communication barriers among building systems, making it possible for such systems to share data and work together.

News Release: The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Standards Council of Canada today renewed an agreement to help facilitate trade between the world's two largest trading partners.