NIST/NOAA Boulder Labs

The U. S. Department of Commerce Boulder Labs are scientific laboratories including NIST, NOAA and NTIA. Clustered on the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder Colorado, these labs are the home of scientific research and engineering in the fields of electromagnetics, materials reliability, optoelectronics, quantum electronics and physics, time and frequency, earth systems, weather and telecommunication.

As it has since 2003, this expo will once again be hosted by the Boulder Laboratories Employee Association (BLEA). BLEA is wholly composed of employees (full and part time) and contractors of NIST, NOAA, ERL, MASC, NDGC, NTIA and ITS. BLEA was created to serve as the social and civic organization for these employees.

BLEA and FBC will work together to invite all personnel to attend this expo via site-wide emails and promotion announcements.

Attendees
2013 Attendance: Over 200 agency personnel visited this expo. Some of the job titles of these attendees include: Information Systems Security Officer, IT Specialist, IT Security Lead, Software Engineer, Network Enginner, Systems Admin, Engineer, Chief Scientist and Contract Specialist.

About U.S. Department of Commerce Boulder Labs
The two main agencies at the DoC Boulder Labs are NIST and NOAA. The NIST Boulder Laboratories have more than 350 scientific, technical, and support staff, and more than 300 visiting researchers, students, and contractors. With an annual research and measurement budget of about $100 million, NIST Boulder is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

NOAA Boulder is composed of the Earth System Research Laboratory, National Climatic Data Center - Paleoclimatology, National Geophysical Data Center, National Snow and Ice Data Center, National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office, and the National Weather Service Space Weather Prediction Center. From daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings and climate monitoring to fisheries management, coastal restoration and supporting marine commerce, NOAA's products and services support economic vitality and affect more than one-third of America's gross domestic product. Over 1,000 NOAA personnel work in the David Skaggs Research Center on the Boulder campus.