[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 203 (Friday, October 20, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54215-54216]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-25983]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology


Announcement of a Meeting To Discuss an Opportunity To Join a 
Cooperative Research and Development Consortium for an Open 
Architecture Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 
invites interested parties to attend a meeting on December 1, 1995 to 
discuss the possibility of setting up a cooperative research consortium 
to reduce the life-cycle cost of machine tool controllers by developing 
public domain open system interface standards which support component 
interoperability.
    Any program undertaken will be within the scope and confines of The 
Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 (Pub. L. 99-502, 15 U.S.C. 
3710a), which provides federal laboratories including NIST, with the 
authority to enter into cooperative research agreements with qualified 
parties. Under the law, NIST may provide ``personnel, service, 
facilities, equipment or other resources with or without reimbursement 
(but not funds to non-federal parties)''--to the cooperative research 
program.
    The meeting will be held on Friday December 1, 1995 at 8:30 a.m., 
Room 126, Building 304, at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD, for interested 
parties. The meeting will discuss the possible formation of a research 
consortium including NIST and manufacturing 

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industry to conduct research in this area. This is not a grant program.

DATES: The meeting will be held on December 1, 1995. Interested parties 
should contact NIST to confirm their attendance at the address, 
telephone number or FAX number shown below no later than November 23, 
1995.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 8:30 a.m., Room 126, Building 
304, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred Proctor, Building 220, Room B127, 
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899. 
Telephone: 301-975-3425; FAX: 301-990-9688; e-mail: 
[email protected].

Dated: October 13, 1995.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 95-25983 Filed 10-19-95; 8:45 am]
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