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NIST Helping Improve Speed Measurements for Cars, Bullets
Release Date: 05/20/2009 While today's law enforcement officers don't wear utility belts full of crimefighting gadgets like Batman, they do rely on a variety of … more
New Program Evaluates Labs for Emergency Communications Tests
Release Date: 03/24/2009 To help ensure that first responders, public safety officers and military personnel can always talk with each other no matter what communications … more
Improved Measurements Could Mean Safer, More Reliable Electroshock Weapons
Release Date: 11/12/2008 Electroshock weapons - such as stun guns and other similar devices that temporarily incapacitate a person by delivering a high-voltage, … more
Emergency Links: NIST Identifies ‘Sweet Spot’ for Radios in Tunnels
Release Date: 05/13/2008 As part of a project to improve wireless communications for emergency responders, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and … more
New Accreditation Program for Body Armor Testing Laboratories
Release Date: 12/12/2007 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), has established a new … more
New SRM Allows Accurate Accounting of Forensic DNA
Release Date: 10/25/2007 Thanks to the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a method for making multiple copies of DNA fragments, even tiny bits of biological evidence (in the … more
New System ‘Sees’ Crimes on Audiotape
Release Date: 10/26/2004 The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a real-time magnetic imaging system that … more
NIST Study Shows Computerized Fingerprint Matching Is Highly Accurate
Release Date: 07/06/2004 Computerized systems that automatically match fingerprints have become so sophisticated that the best of them are accurate more than 99 percent of … more |
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