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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=https://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|accessdateaccess-date=May 12, 2008-05-12}}</ref>

ATP is designed for early-stage research in industry, not academia, though it supported academia indirectly (as subcontractors or collaborators in projects).{{Citation needed|date=May 2008}} It was started under the administration of U.S. President [[George H. W. Bush]] in 1991 with special legislation enacted and implemented by the administration of President [[Bill Clinton]] 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 administration of President [[George W. Bush]] , repeatedly recommended its termination<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-02-06-advanced-tech-program_x.htm|title=Program keeps avoiding the ax|last=Benedetto|first=Richard|date=February 6, 2005-02-06|work=USA Today|accessdate=2008-05access-date=May 12, 2008}}</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on August 9, 2007, when the president signed the'' America COMPETES Act'' (H.R. 2272; Public Law Number 110-69), which repealed the Advanced Technology Program-enabling legislation.

==Technology Innovation Program==

{{update|date=May 2008}}<!-- News suggests that this successor program has in fact been funded and established -->

A new, successor program was enacted called the NIST Technology Innovation Program. The Technology Innovation Program (TIP). TIP was established for the purpose of assisting U.S.&nbsp;businesses and institutions of higher education or other organizations, such as national laboratories and nonprofit research institutes, to support, promote, and accelerate innovation in the United States through high-risk, high-reward research in areas of critical national need.

TIP is aimed at speeding the development of new research targeted to address specific national problems.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/18614 |title=A Billion Here, A Billion There: How the Census Bureau Has Bungled the 2010 US Census |last=Castro |first=Daniel |date=May 6, 2008-05-06 |work=eGov Monitor |accessdate=2008-05access-date=May 12, 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517162805/http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/18614 |archivedate=2008-05-17 }}</ref><!--not a perfect source -- need to find a more neutral one later...--> Funding is provided to industry (small and medium-sized businesses), universities, and consortia for research on new technologies for solving critical national problems that present high technical risks, with commensurate high rewards if successful. The primary mechanism for this support are cost-shared research grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts awarded on the basis of merit competitions.

===Features===

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The major features of the Technology Innovation Program are established in the authorizing legislation. These include:

* TIP makes cost-shared awards of no more than 50 percent of total project costs to high-risk R&D projects that address critical national and societal needs in NIST’s areas of technical competence.

* Projects may be proposed either by individual, for-profit companies or by joint ventures that may include for-profit companies, institutions of higher learning, national laboratories or non-profit research institutes, so long as the lead partner is either a small or medium-sized business or an institution of higher learning.

* Awards are limited to no more than $3&nbsp;million total over three years for a single-company project or no more than $9&nbsp;million total over five years for a joint venture.

* TIP may not provide funding to any business that is not a small- or medium-sized business, though those businesses may participate in a TIP-funded project.

===Shutdown of TIP===

On November 18, 2011, President Obama signed the "Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012,", thatwhich provided FY 2012 full-year appropriations through September 30, 2012, for the Department of Commerce. This bill included appropriations for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). However, there were no funds appropriated for the Technology Innovation Program. The Programprogram is currently{{When|date=January 2018}} taking the necessary actions for an orderly shutdown.<ref>{cite|url=[https://www.nist.gov/technology-innovation-program|title= Technology Innovation Program}]</ref>

==Shutdown of TIP==

On November 18, 2011, President Obama signed the "Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012," that provided FY 2012 full-year appropriations through September 30, 2012 for the Department of Commerce. This bill included appropriations for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). However, there were no funds appropriated for the Technology Innovation Program. The Program is currently taking the necessary actions for an orderly shutdown.<ref>{cite|url=https://www.nist.gov/technology-innovation-program|title=Technology Innovation Program}</ref>

==Bibliography==