Government Websites

Best Manufacturing Practices Center of Excellence
The Best Manufacturing Practices (BMP) Program was created in 1985 to help businesses identify, research, and promote exceptional manufacturing practices, methods, and procedures. Its objective is to empower defense and commercial customers to operate at a higher level of efficiency and effectiveness. To this end, BMP has three core competencies represented by tools and resources that enable organizations to identify and apply best practices and become part of a vast, mutually supportive information exchange network: 1) Best Practices Surveys - conducted to identify, validate, and document best practices, and encourage government, industry, and academia to share information and implement the practices, 2) Systems Engineering - facilitated by the Program Manager's WorkStation (PMWS), a suite of electronic tools that provide risk management, engineering support, and failure analysis through integrated problem solving, and 3) Web Technologies - offered through the Collaborative Work Environment (CWE) to provide users with an integrated digital environment to access and process a common set of documents in a geographically dispersed environment.

Manufacturing Technology Information Analysis Center (AMMTIAC)
The Advanced Materials, Manufacturing, and Testing Information Analysis Center (AMMTIAC) is the DoD Center of Excellence responsible for acquiring, archiving, analyzing, synthesizing, and disseminating scientific and technical information related to advanced materials, manufacturing, and testing (AMMT). AMMTIAC meets the needs of the warfighter as well as those of the greater advanced materials, manufacturing, and testing community by providing comprehensive support to the nation's defense systems and infrastructure across the entire life-cycle.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - Robotics Portal
NIST, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, was founded in 1901 as the nation's first federal physical science research laboratory. Over the years, the scientists and technical staff at NIST have made solid contributions to image processing, DNA diagnostic "chips," smoke detectors, and automated error-correcting software for machine tools. Just a few of the other areas in which NIST has had major impact include atomic clocks, X-ray standards for mammography, scanning tunneling microscopy, pollution-control technology, and high-speed dental drills. This link is to the robotics portal.

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