Explanation: The National Technology Transfer And Advancement Act (Public Law 104-113) mandates that Federal departments and agencies use voluntary consensus standards in place of Government standards wherever practical. Government employees serve on standards committees. Their names and contact information must be accessible by the public. The Department of Commerce, Department of Defense and NASA have proprietary databases that contain this information. Public users do live searches into those databases in Alabama, Maryland and Virginia. Using XML, our system retrieves the selected data, sorts and formats the results and returns HTML to the user. The results are always current.

Contact: Bruce Troutman, 703-725-8020, bruce.troutman@8020data.com

Web address: http://standards.gov/  (formerly at www.secureaddress.com/NTTAAMemberSearch)

Major Participants: Department of Commerce (DOC), Department of Defense (DOD) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) System Owner: National Institute Of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Encouraged to Participate: Any one with suggestions for the improvement of our system. .

How to get involved: Contact us via email to either kevin.mcintyre@nist.gov; bruce.troutman@8020data.com