COMMITTEE MEETINGS, MONDAY, JULY 11, 1966 All day Monday was set aside for meetings of the Conference committees. Announcements of these meetings were carried in the National Conference Announcement and in the Conference Program. The Conference committees that met on Monday morning were the Executive Committee, the Committee on Liaison with the National Government, and the Committee on Laws and Regulations. The Committee on Education and the Committee on Specifications and Tolerances met on Monday afternoon. All final reports of the Standing and Annual Committees can be found beginning on page 131. THE UNIVE 1 POSTAGE AND FEES PAID U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMI (As constituted at the conclusion of the Fifty-first National Conference personnel of each of the standing committees are as listed. The remaining of office for each committee member, in years, is shown in parentheses follo each entry.) COMMITTEE ON LIAISON WITH THE NATIONAL ANNUAL COMMITTEES ACTING ONLY DURING T Nominations: R. WILLIAMS of New York, Chairman; E. H. BLACK of Cali *M. W. JENSEN, Executive Secretary of the Conference, is ex officio nonvoting s to each committee. COMMITTEE MEETINGS, MONDAY, JULY 11, 1966 All day Monday was set aside for meetings of the Conference committees. Announcements of these meetings were carried in the National Conference Announcement and in the Conference Program. The Conference committees that met on Monday morning were the Executive Committee, the Committee on Liaison with the National Government, and the Committee on Laws and Regulations. The Committee on Education and the Committee on Specifications and Tolerances met on Monday afternoon. All final reports of the Standing and Annual Committees can be found beginning on page 131. at present, we have just a little over 50 percent of our Washington staff now located in the new facilities. We have also just begun the final construction phase, which consists of four special-purpose laboratories. These laboratories will not be completed until late in 1968, but they will house only a small portion of the staff. In the laboratories now available we will be able to house approximately 90 percent of the staff, and it is expected that this 90 percent will be located in the new facilities by the end of this year. Late in the fall, we are planning a formal dedication of the new facility. I would also like to bring to your attention the fact that we have been preparing a comprehensive history of the National Bureau of Standards. We have been working on this project over the past five years, and expect it to appear this month. It is to be published by the Government Printing Office, and its title is "Measures for Progress." We have selected as the date for the formal publication July 28, 1966, which is the hundredth anniversary of the legalization of the Metric System in this country. During the past year, we have been very active at the National Bureau of Standards in categorizing our program in terms of new definitions promulgated by the President and the Bureau of the Budget. This effort, government-wide, is called the Planning-Programming Budgeting System. The objective is to aline all Federal Government activities in terms of programs whose outputs can be measured. The general goal is to attempt to provide better criteria for choice among the many activities that the Federal Government must engage in so that return per dollar can be optimized. Within the National Bureau of Standards, we have reached the conclusion that our activities can be summarized under four major program categories, each of which permits some means of evaluating or measuring the output qualitatively, if not quantitativly. The first of these four program categories is called Basic Standards, and the goal of this program is to provide the central basis for uniform compatible measurement in this country. It begins with setting up the basic standards, with extending the standards through higher and smaller values, with the extension of the basic standards into approximately forty-five derived standards, and with providing measurement and calibration services for the effective utilization of these standards throughout the Nation. Your own program of the Office of Weights and Measures is a part of this basic program category of the Bureau. The second major program category is the Numerical Data program. This involves the determination of properties of matter and materials that are of great importance to science and industry and which are not available in sufficient accuracy elsewhere. The work |