Updated: January 19 2018

National Institute of Standards and Technology - The Metric Program (NIST)

The Metric Program seeks to accelerate the Nation’s transition to the metric system, the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce. Implementing the 1988 amendments to the Metric Conversion Act of 1975, the Metric Program helps foster the metric transition activities of all Federal agencies. The Program provides leadership and assistance on the adoption and use of the metric language of measurement by businesses, state and local governments, standards organizations, trade associations, and the educational community.
Under the banner Toward a Metric America, the Program conducts outreach among educational, professional, business, and media audiences to:

1. accelerate adoption of the metric system in trade and commerce
2. encourage use of the metric system in all facets of education, including honing of worker skills; and
3. develop positive and enjoyable programs of public awareness.

Current Metric Program initiatives focus on education and public awareness to gain broad-based support for national metrication from industry and the general public.

Primary Address

National Institute of Standards and Technology - The Metric Program (NIST)
Metric Program,
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 2020,
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-2020
Phone: (301) 975-3690
Web: https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/metric-si

Region(s) Served

• National

Locations

• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - Gaithersburg Office
  Metric Program,
  100 Bureau Drive, Stop 2020,
  Gaithersburg, MD 20899-2020
  Phone: (301) 975-3690
  Fax: (301) 948-1416
  Web: https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/metric-si
  Email: [email protected]
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