Advanced Technology Program

The <a href="/facts/NIST/gr9Fnh85">NIST</a> Advanced Technology Program (ATP, or NIST ATP) is a United States government (<a href="/facts/U.S._Department_of_Commerce/3sch0DLr">U.S. Department of Commerce</a>, <a href="/facts/National_Institute_of_Standards_and_Technology/gr9Fnh85">National Institute of Standards and Technology</a>) program designed to stimulate early-stage advanced technology development that would otherwise not be funded.
ATP is designed for early-stage research in industry, not academia, though it supports academia indirectly (as subcontractors or collaborators in projects). It was started under the administration of U.S. President <a href="/facts/George_H._W._Bush/Xk5UxRqp">George H. W. Bush</a> in 1991 with special legislation enacted and implemented by the administration of President <a href="/facts/Bill_Clinton/x5mwYkVh">Bill Clinton</a> in the <a href="/facts/Code_of_Federal_Regulations/gxfzmbCN">Code of Federal Regulations</a> Title 15, Volume 1, Parts 0 to 299.
Starting in 1995, the Republican-led Congress, as well as the administration of President <a href="/facts/George_W._Bush/mYSgM515">George W. Bush</a>, repeatedly recommended its termination and the program was suspended in 2005 with the <a href="/facts/United_States_government/VJCxUaf7">White House</a> working with the Administration and Congress to terminate this program. This was completed on August 9, 2007, when the president signed the America COMPETES Act (H.R. 2272; Public Law Number 110-69), which repealed the Advanced Technology Program-enabling legislation.

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Advanced Technology Program