[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 1, Parts 0 to 299]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR200.101]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
 CHAPTER II--NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY, DEPARTMENT 
                               OF COMMERCE
 
PART 200--POLICIES, SERVICES, PROCEDURES, AND FEES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 200.101  Measurement research.

    (a) The NIST staff continually reviews the advances in science and 
the trends in technology, examines the measurement potentialities of 
newly discovered physical phenomena, and uses these to devise and 
improve standards, measuring devices, and measurement techniques. As new 
requirements appear, there are continual shifts of program emphasis to 
meet the most urgent needs for the measurement of additional quantities, 
extended ranges, or improved accuracies.
    (b) The basic research and development activities of NIST are 
primarily

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funded by direct appropriations, and are aimed at meeting broad general 
needs. NIST may also undertake investigations or developments to meet 
some specialized physical measurement problem of another Government 
agency, industrial group, or manufacturing firm, using funds supplied by 
the requesting organization.