Federal Programs from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Education Quality Award Ambassadorship
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Support Baldrige National quality Program (BNQP) award winners in conducting outreach, serving as role models, and encouraging other organizations to practice effective quality control in the provisio...more

Calibration Program
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
To provide a consistent system of physical measurement in the United States of America....more

National Standard Reference Data System
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
To make evaluated scientific and technical data readily available to scientists, engineers, and the general public....more

Standard Reference Materials
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Standard Reference Materials are certified and issued by NIST to develop accurate methods of analysis; to calibrate measurement systems used to: (1) facilitate the exchange of goods, (2) institute qua...more

Weights and Measures Service
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
To provide leadership and technical resources to assure the accuracy of the quantities and quantity representations in all commercial transactions in the United States, to promote a uniform national w...more

Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
To provide scientific research and technology transfer for measurement and engineering research and standards....more

National Center for Standards and Certification Information
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
To serve as a standards information and conformity assessment center and referral service, by maintaining a reference collection of standards and specifications, regulations, certification rules, dire...more

Manufacturing Extension Partnership
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
To establish, maintain, and support manufacturing extension centers and services, the functions of which are to improve the competitiveness of firms accelerating the usage of appropriate manufacturing...more

Advanced Technology Program
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
To work in partnership with industry to foster the development and broad dissemination of challenging, high-risk technologies that offer the potential for significant, broad-based economic benefits fo...more

Technology Innovation Program (TIP)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Technology Innovation Program (TIP), is a cost-shared federal financial assistance program to support, promote, and accelerate innovation in the United States through high-risk, high-reward research i...more



Social Entrepreneurship
Spotlight



The Social Innovators of 2014


For 2014, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship has recognized 37 individuals for their outstanding work in the field of social enterprise.






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