UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE John T. Connor, Secretary J. Herbert Hollomon, Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LIBRARIES DEPOSITED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMER** CONTENTS Transfer of Programs to ESSA. Program-Planning- ards Liaison and Analysis Established. Legislation History. Site Location. Laboratory Planning. Final Length. Mass. Time and Frequency. Temperature. Electrical Quantities-DC and Low Frequency High Frequency Electrical Standards. High Fre- 37 1967 Studies for Other Agencies. Conferences and Semi- nars. THE NATIONAL STANDARD REFERENCE Nuclear Data. Atomic and Molecular Data. Solid 59 Materials Property Data and Measurement Methodology 72 Technical Assistance to Others DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRESS During the 1966 fiscal year several management changes were made which will help the Bureau better to fulfill its primary responsibilities. These changes were primarily required by the constantly changing state of science and technology. The central mission of the Bureau has remained substantially unchanged, but external factors in government, industry, and commerce have required adjustments in orientation and emphasis for the NBS staff. Several of these are described below. Transfer of Programs to ESSA The primary organizational change was the formal transfer in October of the Bureau's Central Radio Propagation Laboratory (CRPL) in Boulder, Colo., to the Commerce Department's new Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA). ESSA is the result of a reorganization and combining of CRPL, Weather Bureau, and the Coast and Geodetic Survey. In addition to the transfer of CRPL, a new Geoacoustics Group was formed in ESSA's Institute for Telecommunication Sciences and Aeronomy by the transfer of fifteen staff members from the NBS Sound Section. This group will continue studies of the propagation of sound waves through the atmosphere and other media and investigations of the interactions between sound waves and other geophysical phenomena. Program-Planning-Budgeting Activities Implementation of the newly promulgated Government-wide Program-Planning-Budgeting System at NBS began in December 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. Program memoranda describing the Bureau's activities, objectives and plans, together with a Program and Financial Plan projecting |