Calibration and Certification What is NIST?
NIST is the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Commerce Department’s Technology Administration. NIST works to advance measurement science, standards, and technology and provides calibrations, standard reference materials, standard reference data, test methods, proficiency evaluation materials, measurement quality assurance programs, and laboratory accreditation services that assist a customer in establishing traceability of results of measurements or values of standards. What is Traceability? Traceability requires the establishment of an unbroken chain of comparisons to stated references. NIST assures the traceability of results of measurements or values of standards that NIST itself provides, either directly or through an official NIST program or collaboration. Other organizations are responsible for establishing the traceability of their own results or values to those of NIST or other stated references. Further information
