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GUIDELINES FOR METRICS
Hardcopy , PDF
English
01-01-1988
Foreword
1 Scope
2 Definitions
2.1 Technical terms
2.2 Organizations
2.3 Legal documents and Department of
Defense Directives
3 References
4 History
4.1 Early U.S. contact with metric
4.2 Metric Study Act of 1968
4.3 Metric Conversion Act of 1975
4.4 Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act
of 1988 (the trade bill)
5 Federal involvement in metric conversion
5.1 General
5.2 Office of Metric Programs (OMP)
5.3 Interagency Committee on Metric
Policy (ICMP)
5.4 Metric conversion policy for federal
agencies
5.5 Metric Usage in the Federal Government
6 State involvement in metric conversion
6.1 National Conference on Weights and
Measures (NCWM)
6.2 National Council on State Metrication
(NCSM)
7 Standardization
7.1 SI
7.2 Standardization in Government and the
private sector
8 Conversions
8.1 General
8.2 Soft conversion
8.3 Hard conversion
8.4 Methods of conversion
9 Benefits for converting
9.1 General
Appendix A Metric Conversion Act of 1975
Appendix B Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness
Act of 1988
Appendix C Conference Committee Report Sec.
5164, Metric Usage
Appendix D DOD Directive No. 4120.18, Metrication
Program
Appendix E Interagency Council on Metric Policy
Membership
Appendix F Interagency Council on Metric Policy,
December 1991
Appendix G Metric Operating Committee
Appendix H Metric Operating Committee
Appendix I Internal Revenue Service Metric
Conversion Plan
Appendix J General Services Administration-Metric Plan
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