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Mojdeh Bahar will serve as NIST's second associate director for innovation and industry services.
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mojdeh Bahar as associate director for innovation and industry services (ADIIS). In this capacity, she will report to Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director Walter G. Copan and serve as a member of the NIST senior leadership team.
The ADIIS is NIST’s principal executive responsible for partnerships with industry, providing oversight for the key extramural and technology transfer programs of the institute, including the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program; the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership; the Office of Advanced Manufacturing, which coordinates the interagency Manufacturing USA program; and the Technology Partnerships Office, which includes NIST’s Small Business Innovation Research Program.
The ADIIS has responsibility for enhancing the successful transfer of new technologies from NIST’s world-class research laboratories to commercial markets and for reporting on behalf of the federal government impacts from the nation’s more than $150 billion federal investment in research. Bahar will also be responsible for coordinating technology transfer policy development and implementation through a network of U.S. federal interagency technology transfer bodies.
Bahar comes to NIST from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricult ..
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