1966 Technical Highlights Of The National Bureau Of Standards

Excerpt from 1966 Technical Highlights of the National Bureau of Standards: Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1966 Implementation of the newly promulgated Government-wide program-planning-budgeting System at nbs began in Decem ber 1965. A series of meetings was held to identify program categories appropriate to the Bureau's output, to examine related resource needs, to identify pertinent program issues, and to plan and initiate additional studies and activities as needed. The categorization of Bureau programs went through a series of revisions as a result of management study and discussion. Pro gram memoranda describing the Bureau's activities, objectives and plans, together with a Program and Financial Plan projectingcosts for the next five years, were submitted to the Department of Commerce and the Bureau of the Budget on May 1. Most of the Bureau's programs were classified either under the category Advancement of the Economy through Industry and Commerce or the Basic Measurements System. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.