National Technical Information Service

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130 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

NTIA or its predecessor agency. The

publications are available from the

National Telecommunications and

Information Administration, Department

of Commerce, Washington, DC

20230 (phone, 202–482–1551); or

the National Telecommunications and

Information Administration, Institute

for Telecommunication Sciences,

Department of Commerce, Boulder, CO

80302 (phone, 303–497–3572). More

information can be obtained by visiting

the Web site at www.ntia.doc.gov.

For further information, contact the National Telecommunications and Information Administration,

Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. Phone, 202–482–1551. Internet, http://www.ntia.doc.

gov.

National Institute of Standards and Technology

100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899

Phone, 301–975–2300. TTY, 800–877–8339. Internet, http://www.nist.gov.

Under Secretary for Standards and Technology

and Director

PATRICK D. GALLAGHER

The National Institute of Standards and

Technology (NIST) operates under the

authority of the National Institute of

Standards and Technology Act (15 U.S.C.

271), which amends the Organic Act of

March 3, 1901 (ch. 872), that created the

National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in

1901. In 1988, Congress renamed NBS

as NIST and expanded its activities and

responsibilities.

NIST is a nonregulatory Federal agency

within the Commerce Department. Its

mission is to promote measurement

science, standards, and technology to

enhance productivity, facilitate trade,

and improve the quality of life. NIST

carries out its mission through the NIST

laboratories, which conduct research

to advance the U.S. technological

infrastructure; the Baldrige National

Quality Program, which helps U.S.

businesses and other organizations

improve the performance and quality

of their operations; the Hollings

Manufacturing Extension Partnership,

which helps smaller f‌i rms adopt new

manufacturing and management

technologies; and the Technology

Innovative Program, which provides

cost-shared awards to industry and other

institutions for high-risk, high-reward

research in areas of critical national need.

Sources of Information

Publications Journal of Research of

the National Institute of Standards and

Technology and other publications are

available on the NIST publications portal

at http://www.nist.gov/publication-portal.

cfm.

For further information, contact the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail

Stop 1070, Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Phone, 301–975–2300. Fax, 301–926–1630. Email, inquiries@nist.gov.

Internet, http://www.nist.gov.

National Technical Information Service

5301 Shawnee Road, Alexandria, VA 22312

Phone, 703–605–6050; 888–584–8332. Internet, http://www.ntis.gov.

Director BRUCE BORZINO

The National Technical Information

Service (NTIS) serves as the largest

central resource for Government-funded

scientif‌i c, technical, engineering, and

business-related information available

today. For more than 60 years, the