Imagine what life would be like without GPS, something you use all the time without thinking about where it came from.

NIST’s atomic clock research helped bring us GPS, which has had more than $1 trillion dollars in economic impact.

This is just one of the many scientific breakthroughs to come out of NIST, which has an annual budget of only $1.5 billion. As a business owner who has built products based on NIST innovations, I view that as an exceptional return on investment for American taxpayers.

The steady stream of exciting technology that comes from NIST’s research will continue to provide economic and societal benefits for the U.S.

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