THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS The National Bureau of Standards is a principal focal point in the Federal Government for ssuring maximum application of the physical and engineering sciences to the advancement of echnology in industry and commerce. Its responsibilities include development and maintenance f the national standards of measurement, and the provisions of means for making measurements onsistent with those standards; determination of physical constants and properties of materials; evelopment of methods for testing materials, mechanisms, and structures, and making such tests s may be necessary, particularly for government agencies; cooperation in the establishment of tandard practices for incorporation in codes and specifications; advisory service to government gencies on scientific and technical problems; invention and development of devices to serve special eeds of the Government; assistance to industry, business, and consumers in the development and cceptance of commercial standards and simplified trade practice recommendations; administration f programs in cooperation with United States business groups and standards organizations for the evelopment of international standards of practice; and maintenance of a clearinghouse for the ollection and dissemination of scientific, technical, and engineering information. The scope of he Bureau's activities is suggested in the following listing of its four Institutes and their organizaonal units. nstitute for Basic Standards. Applied Mathematics. Electricity. Metrology. Mechanics. [eat. Atomic Physics. Physical Chemistry. Laboratory Astrophysics.* Radiation Physics. Radio Standards Laboratory:* Radio Standards Physics; Radio Standards Engineering. Office f Standard Reference Data. nstitute for Materials Research. Analytical Chemistry. Polymers. Metallurgy. Inorganic laterials. Reactor Radiations. Cryogenics.* Materials Evaluation Laboratory. Office of tandard Reference Materials. stitute for Applied Technology. Building Research. Information Technology. Performace Test Development. Electronic Instrumentation. Textile and Apparel Technology Center. echnical Analysis. Office of Weights and Measures. Office of Engineering Standards. Office Invention and Innovation. Office of Technical Resources. Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific id Technical Information.** Central Radio Propagation Laboratory.* Ionospheric Telecommunications. Tropospheric elecommunications. Space Environment Forecasting. Aeronomy. Located at Boulder, Colorado 80301 Located at 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Virginia 22171 See footnote 2 on page 6. Calibration and Test Services of the National Bureau of Standards [Reprinted from the Federal Register: May 18, 1965-Vol. 30, No. 95, Part II; August 14, 1965-Vol. 30, No. 157; National Bureau of Standards Miscellaneous Publication 250 — 1965 Editi Issued October 28, 1965 Supersedes edition of November 22, 1963 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office |