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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical science laboratory programs that include nanoscale science and technology , engineering , information ...
1st NIST Ernest Ambler: 1975–1989 Ambler served as acting director from 1975 to 1977. He was first appointed as director of NBS and continued as director of NIST following the agency's reorganization in 1988. 2nd John W. Lyons 1990–1993 3rd Arati Prabhakar: 1993–1997 4th Raymond G. Kammer 1997–2000 acting Karen Brown 2000–2001 acting ...
Ernest Ambler (November 20, 1923 – February 17, 2017 [1]) was a British-American physicist who served as the Acting Under Secretary for Technology in the Department of Commerce (1988–89), as director of the United States' National Bureau of Standards (NBS, 1975–89), and as the first director of the United States' National Institute of Standards and Technology 1988–89.
Allen Varley Astin (June 12, 1904 – January 28, 1984) was an American physicist who served as director of the United States National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology) from 1951 until 1969. During the Second World War he worked on the proximity fuse.
The Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology was the flagship peer-reviewed scientific journal of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It was published from 1904–2022. Its former name was Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards.
May began working at NIST in 1971, when it was known as the National Bureau of Standards, and spent the next four decades at the agency. [2]In 2014 May was named Acting Director of NIST and Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology.
The National Bureau of Standards, later renamed the National Institute of Standards and Technology, continued to manage meetings and membership until 1997, when NCWM formed a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit standards development organization. From 1998 to 2008, NCWM contracted management services through a private company.
Computer Security Act of 1987; Long title: An Act to provide for a computer standards program within the National Bureau of Standards, to provide for Government-wide computer security, and to provide for the training in security matters of persons who are involved in the management, operation, and use of Federal computer systems, and for other purposes.