During an interview, Gallagher has said that what everyone sees is just a little parade of those things which will attain the critically important position in order to solve the problems related to the government or any kind of the national problems, where they should be tackled.

The efforts of NIST are mainly focusing the area of IT now. Gallagher has also said that though the agency is famous for its work done in the fields of science and physics, it also sets up the official time in whole of the U.S and its work in the area of information technology is of very much importance. The total lab budget of the agency is mainly due to the IT laboratory of the institute.

There was also given some of the authority to NIST over the standards of the smart grid in the year of 2007. During the month of September, for the purpose of interoperability, the agency released a road map and a framework.