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2004 FLC Outstanding Laboratory Award
2004 FLC Outstanding Laboratory Award
The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC)
has named the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) in
Boulder, Colo., as a 2004 Outstanding Laboratory, at its annual
Mid-Continent Regional Awards event in Texas on September 9. The
award was the result of work done by ITS on video quality
measurements. Other laboratories receiving awards included the
Great Plains Research Systems Unit, Fort Collins, Colo., the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colo., and Sandia
National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM.
ITS is the research and engineering arm of the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). ITS
serves as a principal Federal resource for solving the
telecommunications concerns of other Federal agencies, state and
local Governments, private corporations and associations, and
international organizations. Cooperative research agreements based
upon the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 are ITS' principal
means of aiding the private sector. These partnerships aid in the
commercialization of new products and services.
The FLC, formally chartered by Congress in 1986 to promote and
strengthen technology transfer activities, is a nationwide network
of federal laboratories that strives to link laboratory-developed
technologies and expertise with the private sector. More than 700
major federal laboratories and centers and their parent departments
and agencies are FLC members. The Mid-Continent region of the FLC
includes fourteen states and over 100 laboratories.