As Jim Frysinger has already pointed out, you don't need to include NIST. To the extent to which their budget allows it, they're already championing the SI Metric system. Their budget was cut a few years ago, but maybe Obama's actions will reverse that.
By the way, because you formatted your message as text, your link was fragmented. I've formatted this response as HTML, so the link should be intact. For long URLs, you should use tinyurl (http://tinyurl.com) to produce a short one that will link to the original one. Bill _____ Bill Potts W <http://wfpconsulting.com/> FP Consulting Roseville, CA <http://metric1.org/> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [ <mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Hudnall Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 17:15 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:44918] Increased scientific research funding. President Obama has pledged that as a nation, we should target 3% of GDP toward scientific research. This combined with private-sector spending on R & D means that a SIGNIFICANT sector of the US economy will be exposed to metric usage on a daily basis at work. This is an excellent opportunity to contact some of the agencies such as the NSF and NIST listed here in this article stressing the importance of metric in the sciences. <http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/43271/title/Obama_pledges_3_perc ent_of_GDP_for_research> http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/43271/title/Obama_pledges_3_perce nt_of_GDP_for_research Scott
