Technical Highlights of the National Bureau of StandardsU.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, 1970 |
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Page 1 - To assist the Congress in appraising the administration of the laws and in developing such amendments or related legislation as it may deem necessary, each standing committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives shall exercise continuous watchfulness of the execution by the administrative agencies concerned of any laws, the subject matter of which is within the jurisdiction of such committee...
Page 84 - The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) are the most important of these organizations whose business is developing standards.
Page 3 - These include the development and maintenance of the national standards of measurement and the provision of means and methods for making measurements consistent with these standards...
Page 3 - ... invention and development of devices to serve special needs of the Government; and the development of standard practices, codes, and specifications.
Page 77 - The Congress assign the responsibility for guiding the change, and anticipating the kinds of special problems described in the report, to a central coordinating body responsive to all sectors of our society.
Page 23 - ... MATERIALS RESEARCH conducts materials research leading to improved methods of measurement standards, and data on the properties of well-characterized materials needed by industry, commerce, educational institutions, and Government; develops, produces, and distributes standard reference materials; relates the physical and chemical properties of materials to their behavior and their interaction with their environments; and provides advisory and research services to other Government agencies.
Page 3 - The development of methods for testing materials, mechanisms, and structures, and the testing of materials, supplies, and equipment, including items purchased for use of Government departments and independent establishments.
Page 77 - That in order to encourage efficiency and minimize the overall costs to society, the general rule should be that any changeover costs shall "lie where they fall" ; That the Congress, after deciding on a plan for the nation, establish a target date ten years ahead, by which time the US will have become predominantly, though not exclusively, metric ; That there be a firm government commitment to this goal.
Page 80 - In summary, the results of our study indicate that eventually the United States will join the rest of the world in the use of the metric system as the predominant common language of measurement...
Page 52 - ... half-dozen computer hardware monitors which can provide data on how various components of a computer system are performing ; these have been developed, generally, within the last five years. And yet, first tentative findings show that a 25 percent improvement in computer utilization can be expected from simple changes apparent from primitive analyses of the data produced by these hardware monitors. Grossly, this could mean a 25 percent decrease in the cost of computer services provided by a given...