About Metric Program

• The Metric Program seeks to accelerate the Nation's transition to the metric system, the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce.
• Implementing the 1988 amendments to the Metric Conversion Act of 1975, the Metric Program helps foster the metric transition activities of all Federal agencies.
• The Program provides leadership and assistance on the adoption and use of the metric language of measurement by businesses, state and local governments, standards organizations, trade associations, and the educational community.
• Under the banner Toward a Metric America, the Program conducts outreach among educational, professional, business, and media audiences to:
  1. accelerate adoption of the metric system in trade and commerce
  2. encourage use of the metric system in all facets of education, including honing of worker skills; and
  3. develop positive and enjoyable programs of public awareness.
• Current Metric Program initiatives focus on education and public awareness to gain broad-based support for national metrication from industry and the general public.

Date Created: March 28, 2002
Date Last Modified: October 4, 2006