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NIST Involvement

• Historical context
  
  
  • R. Wampler work at NIST in the 1970's
    
    
    
• Request from industry
  
  
  
• Fits in with NIST/Information Technology Laboratory
  
  
  • Provide test data for evaluating & improving software
    
    
    
• In-house expertise
  
  
  • Statistical modeling
    
    
  • Numerical analysis
    
    
  • Nonlinear optimization
    
    
  • Reference data