Cooperative effort

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has a selected a partnership headed by the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association to serve as the broker to carry out the United States` end of a technology development agreement with Japan. Under the Joint Optoelectronics Project, the countries work to further research and development of opto-electronics for sophisticated computing technologies that contain optical and electronic components. The Joint Optoelectronics Project is part of Japan`s Real World Computing Partnership--a 10-year, $700 million initiative to develop next-generation information-processing technologies.