- Mission [1]
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is the premier federal laboratory supporting the measurements and
standards requirements of the nation. As an agency of the Department of Commerce, the research efforts at NIST are targeted
at providing the technological measurement infrastructure that enables innovation and supports industrial competitiveness.
As such, NIST maintains research programs and expertise in a broad range of scientific and engineering disciplines. High-risk
research in these disciplines helps NIST prepare for the next generation of technologies and their related measurement and
standards challenges. The TIP mission is to support innovation through funding high-risk, high reward research in areas of
critical national need, and to do so by addressing "...critical national needs with the National Institute of Standards and
Technology's areas of technical competence." (U.S.C. 271 Sec.28(l)(2)(B)). The TIP Advisory Board will support these goals
by fulfilling its stated purpose of reviewing TIP's efforts to accelerate R&D of high-risk, challenging technologies in
areas of critical national need and reporting on TIP's effectiveness in meeting its legislatively mandated mission.
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