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Communications Technology Laboratory

Awards

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2022 - Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award---Dazhen Gu, Aaron Hagerstrom, Benjamin Jamroz, Jeffrey Jargon, Christian Long, Ann F. Monke, Eric Stanfield, Angela Stelson, John Stoup, Dylan Williams

For developing rigorous traceability with correlated uncertainties for microwave power and scattering parameters at 5G/6G communications frequencies.

2022 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Ellen Ryan

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2022 - Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award---Christopher Holloway, Joshua Gordon, Matthew Simons, Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse, Nikunjkumar Prajapati

For seminal and groundbreaking work in Rydberg atom-based sensing, with revolutionary applications in communications, imaging, and manufacturing.

2022 - Gold Medal Award---John Beltz, Wyatt Suess, Don Harriss, Roger A. Blalock, Lisa Soucy, Scott Ledgerwood, Ellen Ryan, Jonathan Cook

For developing and deploying a Public Safety Communications Lab Network that has enabled innovative research and influenced commercial products.

NIST Researcher Robert Lipman Receives Prestigious Technical Excellence Award – Again

In September 2022, NIST's Robert Lipman received the Bryan K. Martin Technical Excellence Award, which is presented annually by PDES, Inc., an industry, government, and university consortium committed to standardizing data exchange in manufacturing...

2021 - Presidential Rank Award---Nathan Newbury

For outstanding leadership and pioneering contributions to fiber-based optical frequency combs for record-breaking optical time transfer and spectroscopy.

2021 - Silver Medal Award---Varun Verma, Adriana Lita, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Thomas Gerrits, Martin Stevens, Robert Horansky

For advancing quantum communication and imaging applications by creating novel high-efficiency single-photon detectors and kilopixel arrays

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Oliver Borchert, Douglas Montgomery, Kotikalapudi Sriram, Patrick Gleichmann

For developing innovative technologies that resolved critical internet vulnerabilities and dramatically improved internet robustness.

2021 - George A. Uriano Award---Ellen Ryan, Terese Manley, Craig Connelly, Gary Howarth, II, Joanne Krumel, Jeremy Glenn, Sarah Hughes

For establishing a program to facilitate competitiveness and innovation in the public safety communications research field.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Keith Stouffer, Timothy Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael Pease, Jeffrey Cichonski

For development and dissemination of the first detailed cybersecurity guidelines specifically for protecting small and medium-sized manufacturers.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Robert Commarota, Cerasela Constantin, Sushama Singh , Simon Frechette , Eric Shirley, Andrea Medina-Smith, Elisabeth Mansfield, Douglas Montgomery, Peter Gehring, Fernando J. Cintron

For development of an IT system to modernize and simplify NIST's publication processes

Mary Theofanos demonstrates NIST-designed fingerprint overlays on a fingerprint-scanning system in 2011.

Mary Theofanos Honored with INCITS Award

Mary Frances Theofanos is recognized for numerous contributions to the INICTS/M1 – Biometrics and INCITS/SSE – Software and Systems Engineering standards communities and their international mirror groups, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7...

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Esther Baumann

For development and translation of ultra-precise gas sensing technology with application to the oil/gas industry, defense and atmospheric science.

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Fabrizio Giorgetta

For development and translation of ultra-precise gas sensing technology with application to the oil/gas industry, defense and atmospheric science.

Doug Montgomery Honored in the 2020 New Internet IPv6 Hall of Fame

For leading the USGv6 Program at NIST that provides the technical infrastructure (i.e., standards profiles, product test programs, test and measurement tools, and security guidance) necessary to drive the US Government’s adoption of IPv6 technologies...

2020 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Ann F. Monke

For outstanding leadership, customer service, teamwork and technical expertise in delivering measurement services in microwave power.

2020 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---William Phillips, Ian Coddington, Andrew Ludlow

The Arthur S. Flemming Award was established in 1948 to honor outstanding federal employees for unusually meritorious work.

2020 - Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award---Melissa Midzor, Adam Wunderlich, Duncan McGillivray, Michael Frey, Michael Souryal, John Ladbury, Azizollah Kord, Jason Coder, Jolene Splett, Daniel Kuester

For pioneering innovative measurements and access to a national network of test facilities for the U.S. communications industry and federal operators.

2020 - Gold Medal Award---Ian Coddington, Kevin Cossel, Nathan Newbury, William Swann, Eleanor Waxman

For development and translation of ultra-precise gas sensing technology with application to the oil/gas industry, defense and atmospheric science.

2020 - Gold Medal Award---Keith Stouffer, Victoria Pillitteri, Suzanne Lightman

For development of internationally adopted cybersecurity guidelines and tools that protect critical infrastructure and critical industrial processes.

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Barry Schneider, Robert Hanisch, Carl Spangler, Walid Keyrouz, Andrew Reid, Timothy Blattner, Derek Juba, Robert Densock, Abdella Battou, Thomas Allison

For outstanding initiative in developing and deploying a new computational capability in support of NIST initiatives in big data and AI.

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Joshua A. Gordon

For the development of the Pixel Probe Coordinate Measurement System, which has enabled unprecedented high-frequency antenna alignment accuracy.

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Angela Stelson, Christian Long, Nathan Orloff, James Booth

For the development and application of novel microwave microfluidic techniques to quantify the electromagnetic response of complex fluids.

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Jason Coder, Adam Wunderlich, Michael Frey, Daniel Kuester, Azizollah Kord, Jolene Splett, John Ladbury, Robert Horansky, Duncan McGillivray

For development and execution of complex factor screening of wireless emissions from LTE cellular devices to enable efficient use of scarce spectrum.

2019 Van Duzer Prize

The paper "1 GHz Waveform Synthesis with Josephson Junction Arrays", IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity vol. 30, no. 3, article number 1400111, has been selected by the editors to receive the 2019 Van Duzer Prize. The work in this paper...

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-Quantum communications
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Artificial intelligence
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Chemistry
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Electronics
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Energy
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Environment
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Fire
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-Fire fighting
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Forensic Science
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Health
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Information technology
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-Cyber-physical systems
--Smart cities
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--Cryptography
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--Cybersecurity measurement
--Identity and access management
--Privacy engineering
--Risk management
--Securing emerging technologies
--Trustworthy networks
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-Data and informatics
--Human language technology
--Information retrieval
--Natural language processing
-Digital twins
-Federal information processing standards (FIPS)
-Health IT
-Internet of Things (IoT)
-Interoperability testing
-Location based services
-Mobile
-Networking
--Mobile and wireless networking
--Network management and monitoring
--Network modeling and analysis
--Network security and robustness
--Network test and measurement
--Next generation networks
--Protocol design and standardization
--Software defined and virtual networks
-Software research
--Software testing
-Usability and human factors
--Accessibility
-Video analytics
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-Visualization research
-Voting systems
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
-Additive manufacturing
-Factory communications
-Factory operations planning and control
-Interoperability in manufacturing
-Machining
-Manufacturing economics
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-Manufacturing systems design and analysis
-Monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics
-Process improvement
-Process measurement and control
-Product data
-Robotics
--Agility and adaptability
--Collaborative robots
--Dexterous grasping
--Manipulation
--Mobility and industrial autonomous vehicles
--Navigation / actuation / control
--Sensing and perception
-Supply chain
-Sustainable manufacturing
-Systems engineering
-Systems integration
-Technology commercialization
Materials
-Ceramics
-Composites
-Concrete / cement
-Materials characterization
--Composition and structure
--Mechanical properties
--Thermal properties
-Metals
-Modeling and computational material science
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Mathematics and statistics
-Experiment design
-Image and signal processing
-Modeling and simulation research
-Numerical methods and software
-Statistical analysis
-Uncertainty quantification
Metrology
-Amount of substance
-Dimensional metrology
-Electrical / electromagnetic metrology
-Flow metrology and rheology
-Force metrology
-Humidity metrology
-Ionizing radiation metrology
-Mass metrology
-Metric
-Optical / photometry / laser metrology
-Pressure and vacuum metrology
-Thermometry metrology
-Time and frequency metrology
-Weights and measures
Nanotechnology
-Nanobiotechnology
-Nanochemistry
-Nanoelectronics
-Nanofabrication / manufacturing
--Lithography
--Self-assembly
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Neutron research
Performance excellence
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Physics
-Atomic / molecular / quantum
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-Condensed matter
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-Magnetics
-Nuclear physics
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-Quantum information science
-Radiation
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Public safety
-Chemical / Biological / Radiological / Nuclear / Explosives (CBRNE)
-First responder preparedness
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-Response robots
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