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National Aeronautic Association
The National Aeronautic Association, founded in 1905 as the Aero Club of America, is the United States authority certifying national aviation and space records and awarding the Collier Trophy.
National AI Research Institutes
The National AI Research Institutes are a US program led by the National Science Foundation, launched in 2020, funding 29 distributed artificial intelligence research institutes.
National AI Research Resource
The National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) is a US public-private initiative led by the National Science Foundation giving researchers access to AI computing and data.
National Air and Space Museum
The National Air and Space Museum is a Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C. holding the world's largest aviation and spaceflight collection, opened on the National Mall in 1976.
National Air Cargo
National Air Cargo is an American air freight forwarder and cargo airline group founded in 1991, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, and a contract carrier for the US Department of Defense.
National Air Races
The National Air Races were annual American aviation competitions first held in 1920, centered on Cleveland, Ohio from 1929 until they ended after a fatal 1949 crash.
National Aluminium Company
National Aluminium Company, known as NALCO, is an Indian state-owned aluminum producer founded in 1981 and based in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, operating integrated bauxite mining, alumina refining, and smelting.
National Association of Letter Carriers
The National Association of Letter Carriers, or NALC, is the AFL-CIO union representing USPS city delivery letter carriers. Founded in Milwaukee in 1889, it won collective bargaining through the 1970 postal strike.
National Association of Manufacturers
The National Association of Manufacturers is a United States trade association and lobbying organization representing manufacturing interests, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, on January 22, 1895.
National Association of Rocketry
The National Association of Rocketry (NAR) is an American nonprofit organization, founded in 1957 by G. Harry Stine and Orville Carlisle, dedicated to safety and education in model rocketry.
National Aviation Day
National Aviation Day is an annual United States observance on August 19, designated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 to stimulate interest in aviation and honor Orville Wright's birthday.
National aviation firsts
National aviation firsts are the earliest recorded milestones within a single country, such as the Wright brothers' 1903 flight, Santos-Dumont's 1906 European flight, and the first airlines and airports.
National Aviation Hall of Fame
The National Aviation Hall of Fame is a Congressionally chartered nonprofit founded in Dayton, Ohio, in 1962 that honors air and space pioneers, starting with the Wright brothers.
National Aviation Heritage Area
The National Aviation Heritage Area is a federally designated heritage area in southwest Ohio, centered on Dayton, preserving the region's aviation heritage from the Wright brothers onward.
National Balancing Point
The National Balancing Point (NBP) is the notional, virtual trading location for gas in Great Britain, its wholesale price benchmark until the Dutch TTF overtook it.
National Bridge Inspection Standards
The National Bridge Inspection Standards are US federal regulations requiring routine highway bridge inspections at least every 24 months, created in 1971 after the Silver Bridge collapse.
National Bridge Inventory
The National Bridge Inventory is a Federal Highway Administration database tracking the location, condition, and ratings of more than 624,000 bridges on United States public roads.
National Broadband Network
The National Broadband Network (NBN) is Australia's wholesale-only, open-access broadband network, built by NBN Co and sold to retail providers, using fiber, copper, wireless, and satellite, declared complete in 2020.
National Building Code of Canada
The National Building Code of Canada is a model building code published by the National Research Council, setting technical requirements for building design and construction since 1941.
National Capital Dadri Thermal Power Plant
The National Capital Dadri Thermal Power Plant, also called the National Capital Power Station, is an NTPC-owned multi-fuel power station in Uttar Pradesh, built to supply Delhi.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a supercomputing research center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, founded by the NSF in 1985 and home to Blue Waters.
National Center for Women & Information Technology
The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) is an American nonprofit, founded in 2004 and based at the University of Colorado Boulder, that works to increase girls' and women's participation in computing.
National Civil Aviation Agency (Brazil)
The National Civil Aviation Agency (Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil, ANAC) is Brazil's civil aviation regulator, created in 2005 to replace the Air Force's Department of Civil Aviation.
National Coal Board
The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation that owned and ran Britain's nationalized coal-mining industry from 1 January 1947, becoming British Coal in 1987.
National Compact Stellarator Experiment
The National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX) was an uncompleted stellarator fusion experiment designed by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, canceled by the Department of Energy in 2008.
National Company QazaqGaz
National Company QazaqGaz, formerly KazTransGaz, is Kazakhstan's state-owned national gas company, operating more than 20,600 km of trunk pipelines and transiting Russian gas to Uzbekistan.
National contractor associations and the geography of the civil engineering industry
National contractor associations are trade bodies representing civil engineering contractors to government on contracts, wages, and procurement, federating through FIEC in Europe, CICA globally, and national bodies like India's BAI.
National conventions for writing telephone numbers
National conventions for writing telephone numbers, also called phone number conventions, are the rules each country applies when printing or storing numbers, governed internationally by ITU-T E.123 since 1988.
National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying
The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) is the nonprofit organization of US licensing boards that develops the FE and PE engineering exams.
National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom)
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is the United Kingdom's national technical authority for cyber security, part of GCHQ, established in 2016 and based in London.