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February 25, 2025

Adam Hicks (l.) and Robert Achatz (r.) prepare to leave for McMurdo Station. (Photo credit: USAP)

In December 2024, ITS electronics engineers Robert Achatz and Adam Hicks travelled from ITS’s Boulder laboratory...

January 6, 2025

To make the most efficient use of available bandwidth, how much can speech and video be compressed before the end user perceives them as degraded? ITS’s...

October 17, 2024

The inaugural International Open RAN Symposium (IORS) convened September 17–19, 2024, in Golden, Colorado, United States of America. NTIA welcomed over 250 participants at the inaugural Symposium from over 20 countries.

From plenary sessions,...

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Ethel C. Marden and Robert D. Elbourn operating SEAC

This Month in ITS History

July 1907: John Howard Dellinger Begins His NBS Career

On July 3, 1907, John Howard Dellinger was officially appointed to the National Bureau of Standards. Bureau director S.W. Stratton had met with Dellinger and, in a letter to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, recommended him to the post of Laboratory Assistant. Dellinger began his duties on his 21st birthday. After a...

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