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The [[NIST]] '''Advanced Technology Program''' ('''ATP''', or '''NIST ATP''') is a United States government ([[U.S. Department of Commerce]], [[National Institute of Standards and Technology]]) program designed to stimulate early-stage advanced technology development that would otherwise not be funded.<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 is 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 1991 with special legislation enacted and implemented by the Clinton administration in the [[Code of Federal Regulations]] Title&nbsp;15, Volume&nbsp;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>

Starting in 1995, the Republican-led Congress, as well as 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on August 9, 2007, when the president signed the'' America COMPETES Act'' (H.R. 2272; Public Law Number 110-69), which repealed the Advanced Technology Program-enabling legislation.