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The [[NIST]] '''Advanced Technology Program''' (ATP, or NIST ATP) is a United States Government ([[US Department of Commerce]], [[National Institute of Standards and Technology]]) program designed to simulate early stage advanced technology development that would otherwise not be fundable.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/21980080.html?dids=21980080:21980080&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Nov+26%2C+1995&author=LESLIE+HELM|title=Advanced Technology Program Caught in the Works of Politics|last=Helm|first=Leslie|date=[[1995-11-26]]|work=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=[[2008-05-12]]}}</ref>

ATP unique in that it is designed for early stage research in industry, not academia, though it supported academia indirectly (as subcontractors or collaborators in projects). It funded projects deeply, but with many strings attached.{{Citation needed|date=May 2008}} It was a child of the first Bush administration in the 1990s1991 with special legislation enacted and implemented by the Clinton administration in the Code of Federal Regulation Title 15, Volume 1, Parts 0 to 299<ref>[CITE: 15CFR295.1] TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE CHAPTER II--NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE PART 295--ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM</ref>

The second [[George W. Bush|Bush]] administration repeatedly recommended its termination<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-02-06-advanced-tech-program_x.htm|title=Program keeps avoiding the ax|last=Benedetto|first=Richard|date=[[2005-02-06]]|work=USA Today|accessdate=[[2008-05-12]]}}</ref> and the program was suspended in 2005 with the [[United States government|White House]] 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9]] [[2007]] when the president signed the'' America COMPETES Act'' (H.R. 2272; Public Law Number 110-69), which repealed the Advanced Technology Program-enabling legislation.