The U.S. World Standards Day Planning Committee recently named Constance A. Morella, U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, as the recipient of the Ronald H. Brown Standards Leadership Award. Morella received the award as recognition for her role in advancing the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act, which calls for federal agencies to adopt voluntary consensus standards as alternatives to federally developed specifications. As a member of the House of Representatives, she helped secure congressional and presidential approval for the NTTAA in 1996. The act has produced far-reaching benefits to the standards community and has saved the government millions of dollars.

“Ms. Morella is richly deserving of this honor for her longstanding support of the United States and global voluntary consensus standardization activities,” says S. Joe Bhatia, American National Standards Institute president and CEO.

Morella will receive the award on World Standards Day, Oct. 11, at a dinner and reception in Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.ansi.org/news_publications/print_article.aspx?articleid=1263

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