Tim, Congratulations for establishing a person to person relationship with Kumar Garg of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House, for your excellent letter to Mr. Garg, and for your legislative initiative supporting adoption of the UPLR in Alabama!
Hopefully, Mr. Garg has enough clout to establish SI more firmly throughout all Departments and Agencies in the Executive Branch. Gene. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:38:35 -0500 >From: Tim Williamson <[email protected]> >Subject: Fwd: Exports, Imports, STEM and SI Metric >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>, Paul Trusten ><[email protected]>, [email protected] >Cc: Elizabeth Gentry <[email protected]>, [email protected] > > Below is a message sent to OSTP, NIST, NSF and > forwarded to you. > Thanks! > Tim > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tim Williamson <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:28 PM > Subject: Exports, Imports, STEM and SI Metric > > Mr. Kumar Garg, > Policy Analyst > Office of Science and Technology Policy > Executive Office of the President > Thanks for taking my call. It is always good to > talk with you. It's also good to have a friend of > SI in the Executive Offices, particularly one who > clearly understands the connection between improved > trade and commerce, science and technology > innovation, and the economic and jobs future of our > nation. > SI in STEM and in trade and commerce would greatly > improve business growth, science and technology > innovation and business profitability particularly > when commercial interests are allowed to respond to > market demands, and when our children are more > thoroughly taught SI in the classroom. Fully > implementing SI in STEM programs funded by the NSF > through NIST and others in the Department of > Commerce, or by NASA, or DoD, or Department of > Energy,...
