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National Nano Technology Investment in the FY 2008 Budget Request
www.aaas.org/spp/rd/08pch23.htm

MEMS Exchange
www.mems-exchange.org

This organization offers a comprehensive array of foundry processes and design expertise to take MEMS and nanotechnology projects to prototyping and production.

 National Nanotechnology Initiative
www.nano.gov
Links to information about research, centers, meetings, industry, publications, conferences, professional societies, and courses.  National Science Foundation (NSF)

Greater Washington Nanotech Alliance
www.nanotech-alliance.org

The alliance facilitates nanotechnology resource exchange, networking, development collaboration and educational outreach activities between non-profit organizations in the greater DC area.  Some of the players include APL, ARL, UMD, NRL, NIST, NASA and UDE.

Army Research Lab – Adelphi
www.arl.army.mil

Some of the related capabilities include:

• Advanced Microanalysis Center

• High Energy Flash X-Ray (HIFX) Facility

• Nanoelectronic Fabrication Facility

• Scale Model Facility

• Ultra-lithography Center

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html

This location is significantly active in Nano and MEMS research

Naval Research Labs
www.nanosra.nrl.navy.mil

• This site reveals the Navy’s interests in nanotechnology, including:

• Ultra-small, highly parallel, computers with multi-teraflop speed

• Image information processors, e.g., extraction and recognition

• Low-power personal and autonomous communication and computation devices

• High-density information storage devices, e.g., terabit/cm2 nonvolatile memory

• Lasers and detectors for weapons and countermeasures

• Optical (infrared, visible, ultraviolet) sensors for improved surveillance an targeting

• Integrated sensor suites for chemical and biological agent detection

• Catalysts for enhancing and controlling energetic reactions

• Synthesis of new compounds (e.g., narrow-bandgap materials)

• Designer materials with combinations of properties that do not currently exist

Naval Surface Warfare Center – Indianhead
www.ih.navy.mil

Division works on unique MEMS applications

NIST
http://www.nsf.gov/
Search "Nano"

This site is a window into nanotechnology initiatives at NIST.  It includes links to major nano initiatives, capabilities and facilities at NIST, including the Center for Nanoscale Science & Technology, funding programs, accomplishments, capabilities, characterization, and nano-electronics, -optoelectronics, -magnetics, -chemistry, -physics, -biotechnology, -quantum computing and –communications.

DOE
www.science.doe.gov/nano

This site is a navigating site to nanotechnology R&D throughout the DOE organization.

FDA
www.fda.gov/nanotechnology

The US Food and Drug Administration regulates a wide range of products, including foods, cosmetics, drugs, devices, and veterinary products, some of which may utilize nanotechnology or contain nanomaterials. With the advent of nanotechnology, the regulation of many products will involve more than one Center, for example a "drug" delivery "device". In these cases the assignment of regulatory lead is the responsibility of the Office of Combination Products. To facilitate the regulation of nanotechnology products, the Agency has formed a NanoTechnology Interest Group (NTIG), which is made up of representatives from all the Centers. While there are no nanotech-specific guidance documents at this time, all existing guidance documents would apply to nanotech products.

NIOSH
www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/nanotech

NIOSH is the leading federal agency conducting research and providing guidance on the occupational safety and health implications and applications of nanotechnology.  This research focuses NIOSH’s scientific expertise, and its efforts, on answering the questions that are essential to understanding these implications and applications.

EPA
http://epa.gov/ncer/nano

Nanotechnology has both applications and implications for the environment. EPA is supporting research in this technology while evaluating its regulatory responsibility to protect the environment and human health. This site highlights EPA's research in nanotechnology and provides useful information on related research at EPA and in other organizations.

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