National Institute of Standards and Technology
Organization in Government
National Institute of Standards and Technology has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Pod Save America. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Michael LewisAmerican nonfiction author of Moneyball, The Big Short, The Fifth Risk and Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State
Lewis argues the market performs poorly on public safety and government fills that role well.
“The market, especially with public safety stuff, the market is terrible. And the government does all this great stuff”
Pod Save America: Deep State Rebels v. Trump (with Michael Lewis) (Oct 4, 2026) · Listen from 23:46
Lewis says Maranghides warned that NIST's fire-science knowledge resides in only one person.
“And he says, like, that knowledge that we created, it's one person deep”
Pod Save America: Deep State Rebels v. Trump (with Michael Lewis) (Oct 4, 2026) · Listen from 22:35
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- Pod Save America · 1 episode
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Deep State Rebels v. Trump (with Michael Lewis)Pod Save America · Oct 4, 2026 · 1 h 4 min
Jon Lovett interviews author Michael Lewis about his book Blockers, on federal employees who resisted DOGE and the Trump administration's reshaping of government.