It was decommissioned in 1987 and its responsibilities returned to the NSF.

Commercial enterprise on the Internet was strictly prohibited by NSF until 1991.

Access to the ARPANET was expanded in 1981 when the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) developed the Computer Science Network ( CSNET ) and again in 1986 when NSFNET provided access to supercomputer sites in the United States from research and education organizations.

Kitt Peak was selected by its first director, Aden B. Meinel, in 1958 as the site for a national observatory under contract with the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) and was administered by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.

Expansion of the army and amalgamation of the CDF and NSF into the army was the first priority, and by 1970 the force numbered nearly 20, 000.

Known as the Black Proposal ( after the color of its cover ), it was submitted to the NSF in 1983.

The ' Black Proposal ' was a short, ten-page proposal for the creation of a supercomputing center which eventually led to funding from the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) to create supercomputing centers, including the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ) at the University of Illinois.

The report was submitted to the NSF early in 1955.

Another VAM off-shoot is the National Socialist Front ( Swedish: Nationalsocialistisk Front, NSF ) which was formed in 1994 by VAM sympathisers in Karlskrona.

The NSF was established by the National Science Foundation Act of 1950.

Along the way, moreover, the NSF's astronomy program has forged a close working relationship with that of NASA, which was also founded in 1958: just as NASA has responsibility for the U. S. effort in space-based astronomy, the NSF provides virtually all the U. S. federal support for ground-based astronomy.

Some alleged he had connections to the KGB, the allegations continued during 2003-2008, when Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who had been granted access to Soviet archives, declared that Iliescu and some of the NSF members were KGB agents, that Iliescu had been in close connection with Mikhail Gorbachev ever since they had allegedly met during Iliescu's stay in Moscow, and that the Romanian Revolution of 1989 was a plot organized by the KGB to regain control of the country's policies ( gradually lost under Ceaușescu's rule ).

The Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center ( CSEC ), located at McMurdo Station, was dedicated in November 1991 by the National Science Foundation ( NSF ).

That same year, he was reelected Deputy for the fifth time and the NSF won 11 seats within the Lebanese Parliament.

The station was demolished in December 2010, after an equipment operator fell through the structure doing snow stability testing for the NSF.

The National Science Digital Library ( NSDL ) was established in 2000 by the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) to provide an organized point of access to STEM content aggregated from a variety of other digital libraries, NSF-funded projects, and other national STEM stakeholder providers.

* NJIT was ranked 135th out of 662 universities in USA in R & D expenditures in 2007 by the National Science Foundation ( NSF ).

The NSF review panel found that the ETA10 suffered a software failure once every 30 hours, and that its ability to run programs on more than one of its eight processors at any one time was poor.

The SEP was initially developed with U. S. public funding from the NEH and NSF.

This format was extended by Disch and initially for his NSF Winamp plugin called NotSo Fatso as an extension to the original NSF format invented by Kevin Horton.

NSFE was also created to add additional functions to NSFs such as timers for songs, fade-out time, arrange songs in a playlist, labels per song, the person who ripped the NSF and several other features.

Non-sufficient funds ( NSF ) is a term used in the banking industry to indicate that a demand for payment ( a cheque ) cannot be honored because insufficient funds are available in the account on which the instrument was drawn.

By the mid-1980s, primary financial support for the growing project is assumed by the NSF.

The National Science Foundation ( NSF ) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.

Over the next decade, increasing NSF involvement leads to a three-tiered system of internetworks managed by a mix of universities, nonprofit organizations and government agencies.

As the vast majority of Raytheon's revenues have been obtained from defense contracts, there has been a tight relationship of cooperation between itself and the U. S. Department of Defense and other U. S. government departments and agencies ( e. g. in the Fiscal Year 2007 the National Science Foundation awarded Raytheon $ 152 million dollars in grants, more than to any other institution and organization in the country, for managing NSF South Pole Station ).

After the expiration of the NSF agreement, vBNS largely transitioned to providing service to the government.

In addition, specific projects and researchers are funded more traditionally through government institutions including the NIH, NSF, and DARPA.

Spafford was a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee 2003-2005, has been an advisor to the National Science Foundation ( NSF ), and serves as an advisor to over a dozen other government agencies and major corporations.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing ( CLSP ) was established at Johns Hopkins University in 1992 with support from the U. S. government ( NSF, DARPA, DoD ).

During Atkinson ’ s tenure at NSF, skeptics in both Congress and the media mounted frequent attacks on government funding for basic research as little more than subsidizing idle curiosity about trivial topics at the taxpayers ’ expense.

Its characters are mostly scientists, either involved in biotech research, assisting government members, or doing paperwork at the National Science Foundation ( NSF ).

The National Science Foundation ( NSF ) is the main United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all fields of earthquake engineering.

In partnership with the U. S. Geological Survey, SGT operates a network of seismographs throughout the northeastern U. S., supports National Science Foundation ( NSF ) efforts to conduct ocean-bottom seismology research, and provides accurate earthquake source mechanisms to government and academic researchers around the world.

One of the leading leaders of NSF, Meraj Muhammad Khan, was made a minister in Bhutto's first cabinet but both NSF and Meraj fell out with the Bhutto government in 1973 when Bhutto started to compromise on his socialist agenda.

In June 2010, the National Science Board ( NSB ), the governing body for NSF and science advisers to both the legislative and executive branches, convened its Task Force on Merit Review to determine " how well the current Merit Review criteria used by the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) to evaluate all proposals were serving the agency.

Today, as described in its 2003 – 2008 strategic plan, the NSF is the only U. S. federal agency with a mandate to support all the non-medical fields of research.

The National Science Foundation ( NSF ) is the funding agency for NOAO.

The term " cyberinfrastructure " was used by a United States National Science Foundation ( NSF ) blue-ribbon committee in 2003 in response to the question: how can NSF, as the nation's premier agency funding basic research, remove existing barriers to the rapid evolution of high performance computing, making it truly usable by all the nation's scientists, engineers, scholars, and citizens?

* Center for Enabling New Technologies Through Catalysis, An NSF Center for Chemical Innovation, USA

The US Navy operates Naval Support Facility ( NSF ) Diego Garcia, a large naval ship and submarine support base, military air base, communications and space-tracking facility, and an anchorage for pre-positioned military supplies for regional operations aboard Military Sealift Command ships in the lagoon.

The National Science Foundation ( NSF ) has ranked Johns Hopkins # 1 among U. S. academic institutions in total science, medical and engineering research and development spending for 31 consecutive years.

However, the NSF had no organization in place to support it, and the proposal itself did not contain a clearly defined home for its implementation.

In the US, the NSF International ( an independent not-for-profit organization ) sets the standards for wash and rinse time along with minimum water temperature for chemical or hot water sanitizing methods.

The twelve member presidential Committee on the National Medal of Science is responsible for selecting award recipients and is administered by the National Science Foundation ( NSF ).

Lead and the Homestake Mine have been selected as the site of the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, a proposed NSF facility for low-background experiments on neutrinos, dark matter, and other nuclear physics topics, as well as biology and mine engineering studies.

For example, reviewers cannot work at the NSF itself, nor for the institution that employs the proposing researchers.

But both criteria already had been mandated for all NSF merit review procedures in the 2010 reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act.

Examples of national facilities include the NSF ’ s national observatories, with their giant optical and radio telescopes ; its Antarctic research sites ; its high-end computer facilities and ultra-high-speed network connections ; the ships and submersibles used for ocean research ; and its gravitational wave observatories.

Shortly thereafter, a presidential directive based on the treaty gives the NSF the responsibility for virtually all U. S. operations and research on the continent ; the U. S. Antarctic Program continues to this day.

During that debate, NSF is both lauded and criticized for favoring the standards.