For public research institutes such as
NIST, this previously overlooked class of scientific output represents a significant portion of the laboratory scientific outputs and an important technology transfer tool.
Recommendation: To improve the management of
NIST interagency agreements and provide reasonable assurance that
NIST is efficiently using its resources and complying with applicable fiscal laws, the Secretary of Commerce should direct the
NIST Director to provide reasonable assurance that its interagency agreements are complete, accurate, and constitute a binding legal agreement, create, document, and implement a robust fiscal and legal review process for interagency agreements.
The
NIST advance could ultimately improve navigation and telecommunications systems, says Jean-Jacques Zondy of France's National Metrology Institute in La Plaine Saint Denis.
The cumulative ten-year economic benefit of this
NIST ATP program could well exceed $90B for the U.S.
For each
NIST force calibration report, this measurement uncertainty is given as the expanded uncertainty, U, which is calculated in accordance with
NIST Technical Note 1297, "Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of
NIST Measurement Results" [7].
Before each implosion, the
NIST team places as many as dozens of battery-powered transmitters at various locations within the condemned building.
Figure 1 is a schematic drawing of the
NIST nonlinearity measurement system for characterizing high-power laser detectors.
To acquire genuine scratch patterns to put on their standard bullets, the
NIST team collected six bullets from the ATF and FBI.
Silicon micromachining methods currently being developed at
NIST can be used to make vapor cells with dimensions well below 1 m[m.sup.3].
NIST cryptographers and many experts outside the agency evaluated 15 competing encryption schemes for factors such as security, speed, and flexibility.
The results of
NIST's unique variable-temperature measurements provide a comprehensive mapping of critical current as a function of magnetic field (0 T to 12 T) and temperature (4 K to 17 K), and form a basis for evaluating CICC and magnet performance.
Hand carrying clocks to Paris "was the standard method then" for maintaining accurate world time, recalls the physicist, who works at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (
NIST) in Boulder, Colo.