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‘‘(b) MANUFACTURING FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—To promote the devel-
opment of a robust research community working at 
the leading edge of manufacturing sciences, the Di-
rector shall establish a program to award— 
‘‘(A) postdoctoral research fellowships at 
the Institute for research activities related to 
manufacturing sciences; and 
‘‘(B) senior research fellowships to estab-
lished researchers in industry or at institutions 
of higher education who wish to pursue studies 
related to the manufacturing sciences at the In-
stitute. 
‘‘(2) APPLICATIONS.—To be eligible for an 
award under this subsection, an individual shall sub-
mit an application to the Director at such time, in 
such manner, and containing such information as 
the Director may require. 
‘‘(3) STIPEND LEVELS.—Under this subsection, 
the Director shall provide stipends for postdoctoral 
research fellowships at a level consistent with the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology 
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program, and sen-
ior research fellowships at levels consistent with sup-
port for a faculty member in a sabbatical position.’’. 
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SEC. 428. MEETINGS OF VISITING COMMITTEE ON AD-
VANCED TECHNOLOGY. 
Section 10(d) of the National Institute of Standards 
and Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 278(d)) is amended by 
striking ‘‘quarterly’’ and inserting ‘‘twice each year’’. 
SEC. 429. MANUFACTURING RESEARCH DATABASE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The National Institute of 
Standards and Technology shall provide for the establish-
ment of a manufacturing research database to enable pri-
vate sector individuals and Federal officials to access a 
broad range of information on manufacturing research 
carried out with funding support from the Federal Gov-
ernment. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The database established under 
subsection (a) shall contain— 
(1) all publicly available information maintained 
by a Federal agency relating to manufacturing re-
search projects funded in whole or in part by the 
Federal Government; and 
(2) information about all Federal programs that 
may be of interest to manufacturers. 
(c) ACCESSIBILITY.—Information contained in the 
database shall be accessible in a manner to enable users 
of the database to easily retrieve information of specific 
interest to them. 
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(d) FEES.—The National Institute of Standards and 
Technology may authorize charging a nominal fee for 
using the database to access information described in sub-
section (b)(1) as necessary to recover the costs of main-
taining the database. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the National Institute 
of Standards and Technology $2,000,000 for carrying out 
this section. 
Subtitle C—Miscellaneous 
SEC. 441. POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS. 
Section 19 of the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 278g–2) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘nor more than 60 new fellows’’ and inserting ‘‘nor 
more than 120 new fellows’’. 
SEC. 442. FINANCIAL AGREEMENTS CLARIFICATION. 
Section 2(b)(4) of the National Institute of Stand-
ards and Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 272(b)(4)) is amend-
ed by inserting ‘‘and grants and cooperative agreements,’’ 
after ‘‘arrangements,’’. 
SEC. 443. WORKING CAPITAL FUND TRANSFERS. 
Section 12 of the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 278b) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
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‘‘(g) AMOUNT AND SOURCE OF TRANSFERS.—Not 
more than one-quarter of one percent of the amounts ap-
propriated to the Institute for any fiscal year may be 
transferred to the fund, in addition to any other transfer 
authority. In addition, funds provided to the Institute 
from other Federal agencies for the purpose of production 
of Standard Reference Materials may be transferred to the 
fund.’’. 
SEC. 444. RETENTION OF DEPRECIATION SURCHARGE. 
Section 14 of the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 278d) is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—’’ before 
‘‘Within’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) RETENTION OF FEES.—The Director is author-
ized to retain all building use and depreciation surcharge 
fees collected pursuant to OMB Circular A–25. Such fees 
shall be collected and credited to the Construction of Re-
search Facilities Appropriation Account for use in mainte-
nance and repair of the Institute’s existing facilities.’’. 
SEC. 445. NON-ENERGY INVENTIONS PROGRAM. 
Section 27 of the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 278m) is repealed. 
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SEC. 446. REDEFINITION OF THE METRIC SYSTEM. 
Section 3570 of the Revised Statues of the United 
States (derived from section 2 of the Act of July 28, 1866, 
entitled ‘‘An Act to authorize the Use of the Metric Sys-
tem of Weights and Measures’’ (15 U.S.C. 205; 14 Stat. 
339)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 3570. METRIC SYSTEM DEFINED. 
‘‘The metric system of measurement shall be defined 
as the International System of Units as established in 
1960, and subsequently maintained, by the General Con-
ference of Weights and Measures, and as interpreted or 
modified for the United States by the Secretary of Com-
merce.’’. 
SEC. 447. REPEAL OF REDUNDANT AND OBSOLETE AU-
THORITY. 
The Act of July 21, 1950, entitled ‘‘An Act To rede-
fine the units and establish the standards of electrical and 
photometric measurements’’ (15 U.S.C. 223 and 224) is 
repealed. 
SEC. 448. CLARIFICATION OF STANDARD TIME AND TIME 
ZONES. 
(a) Section 1 of the Act of March 19, 1918, (com-
monly known as the ‘‘Calder Act’’) (15 U.S.C. 261) is 
amended— 
(1) by striking the second sentence and the 
extra period after it and inserting ‘‘Except as pro-
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vided in section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 
1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a), the standard time of the 
first zone shall be Coordinated Universal Time re-
tarded by 4 hours; that of the second zone retarded 
by 5 hours; that of the third zone retarded by 6 
hours; that of the four zone retarded by 7 hours; 
that of the fifth zone retarded by 8 hours; that of 
the sixth zone retarded by 9 hours; that of the sev-
enth zone retarded by 10 hours; that of the eighth 
zone retarded by 11 hours; and that of the ninth 
zone shall be Coordinated Universal Time advanced 
by 10 hours.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘In this 
section, the term ‘Coordinated Universal Time’ 
means the time scale maintained through the Gen-
eral Conference of Weights and Measures and inter-
preted or modified for the United States by the Sec-
retary of Commerce in coordination with the Sec-
retary of the Navy.’’. 
(b) Section 3 of the Act of March 19, 1918, (com-
monly known as the ‘‘Calder Act’’) (15 U.S.C. 264) is 
amended by striking ‘‘third zone’’ and inserting ‘‘fourth 
zone’’. 
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SEC. 449. PROCUREMENT OF TEMPORARY AND INTERMIT-
TENT SERVICES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the National In-
stitute of Standards and Technology may procure the tem-
porary or intermittent services of experts or consultants 
(or organizations thereof) in accordance with section 
3109(b) of title 5, United States Code to assist on urgent 
or short-term research projects. 
(b) EXTENT OF AUTHORITY.—A procurement under 
this section may not exceed 1 year in duration, and the 
Director shall procure no more than 200 experts and con-
sultants per year. 
(c) SUNSET.—This section shall cease to be effective 
after September 30, 2010. 
(d) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 2 years 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller 
General shall report to the Committee on Science and 
Technology of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the 
Senate on whether additional safeguards would be needed 
with respect to the use of authorities granted under this 
section if such authorities were to be made permanent. 
SEC. 450. MALCOLM BALDRIGE AWARDS. 
Section 17(c)(3) of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology 
Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3711a(c)(3)) is amend-
ed to read as follows: 
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‘‘(3) In any year, not more than 18 awards may be 
made under this section to recipients who have not pre-
viously received an award under this section, and no award 
shall be made within any category described in paragraph 
(1) if there are no qualifying enterprises in that cat-
egory.’’. 
TITLE V—HIGH-PERFORMANCE 
COMPUTING 
SEC. 501. HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING RESEARCH 
AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. 
Title I of the High-Performance Computing Act of 
1991 (15 U.S.C. 5511 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) in the title heading, by striking ‘‘AND 
THE NATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDU-
CATION NETWORK’’ and inserting ‘‘RE-
SEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT’’; 
(2) in section 101(a)— 
(A) by striking subparagraphs (A) and (B) 
of paragraph (1) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(A) provide for long-term basic and applied re-
search on high-performance computing; 
‘‘(B) provide for research and development on, 
and demonstration of, technologies to advance the 
capacity and capabilities of high-performance com-
puting and networking systems; 
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‘‘(C) provide for sustained access by the re-
search community in the United States to high-per-
formance computing systems that are among the 
most advanced in the world in terms of performance 
in solving scientific and engineering problems, in-
cluding provision for technical support for users of 
such systems; 
‘‘(D) provide for efforts to increase software 
availability, productivity, capability, security, port-
ability, and reliability; 
‘‘(E) provide for high-performance networks, in-
cluding experimental testbed networks, to enable re-
search and development on, and demonstration of, 
advanced applications enabled by such networks; 
‘‘(F) provide for computational science and en-
gineering research on mathematical modeling and al-
gorithms for applications in all fields of science and 
engineering; 
‘‘(G) provide for the technical support of, and 
research and development on, high-performance 
computing systems and software required to address 
Grand Challenges; 
‘‘(H) provide for educating and training addi-
tional undergraduate and graduate students in soft-
ware engineering, computer science, computer and 
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network security, applied mathematics, library and 
information science, and computational science; and 
‘‘(I) provide for improving the security of com-
puting and networking systems, including Federal 
systems, including research required to establish se-
curity standards and practices for these systems.’’; 
(B) by striking paragraph (2) and redesig-
nating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs 
(2) and (3), respectively; 
(C) in paragraph (2), as so redesignated 
by subparagraph (B) of this paragraph— 
(i) by striking subparagraph (B); 
(ii) by redesignating subparagraphs 
(A) and (C) as subparagraphs (D) and 
(F), respectively; 
(iii) by inserting before subparagraph 
(D), as so redesignated by clause (ii) of 
this subparagraph, the following new sub-
paragraphs: 
‘‘(A) establish the goals and priorities for Fed-
eral high-performance computing research, develop-
ment, networking, and other activities; 
‘‘(B) establish Program Component Areas that 
implement the goals established under subparagraph 
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(A), and identify the Grand Challenges that the Pro-
gram should address; 
‘‘(C) provide for interagency coordination of 
Federal high-performance computing research, devel-
opment, networking, and other activities undertaken 
pursuant to the Program;’’; and 
(iv) by inserting after subparagraph 
(D), as so redesignated by clause (ii) of 
this subparagraph, the following new sub-
paragraph: 
‘‘(E) develop and maintain a research, develop-
ment, and deployment roadmap for the provision of 
high-performance computing systems under para-
graph (1)(C); and’’; and 
(D) in paragraph (3), as so redesignated 
by subparagraph (B) of this paragraph— 
(i) by striking ‘‘paragraph (3)(A)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘paragraph (2)(D)’’; 
(ii) by amending subparagraph (A) to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(A) provide a detailed description of the Pro-
gram Component Areas, including a description of 
any changes in the definition of or activities under 
the Program Component Areas from the preceding 
report, and the reasons for such changes, and a de-
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scription of Grand Challenges supported under the 
Program;’’; 
(iii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
‘‘specific activities’’ and all that follows 
through ‘‘the Network’’ and inserting 
‘‘each Program Component Area’’; 
(iv) in subparagraph (D), by inserting 
‘‘and for each Program Component Area’’ 
after ‘‘participating in the Program’’; 
(v) in subparagraph (D), by striking 
‘‘applies;’’ and inserting ‘‘applies; and’’; 
(vi) by striking subparagraph (E) and 
redesignating subparagraph (F) as sub-
paragraph (E); and 
(vii) in subparagraph (E), as so redes-
ignated by clause (vi) of this subpara-
graph, by inserting ‘‘and the extent to 
which the Program incorporates the rec-
ommendations of the advisory committee 
established under subsection (b)’’ after 
‘‘for the Program’’; 
(3) by striking subsection (b) of section 101 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(b) ADVISORY COMMITTEE.—(1) The President 
shall establish an advisory committee on high-performance 
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