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Creating a Shared Public Safety Radio Data Set for Research and Analysis

Texas A&M University In September 2021, Texas A&M University was awarded more than $900,000 for the Public Safety Innovation Accelerator...

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Smart Infrastructure and Manufacturing

Today’s infrastructure and manufacturing rely on communication and sensing networks for the transfer of actionable information using technology to make critical

Core Network Technologies

Robust core networks are critical infrastructure in an economy that relies on the exchange of digital information. New technologies, now in research and

2021 APS Fellow - David Leibrandt

For exceptional scientific creativity and leadership in designing and demonstrating a state-of-the-art trapped ion optical clock with the

Comments Received on Four Principles of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (NISTIR 8312 DRAFT)

Comments Received on Four Principles of Explainable Artificial Intelligence ( NISTIR 8312 DRAFT) Final Paper: Four Principles of Explainable...

50th Anniversary Blogs

Celebrating 50 Years of Cybersecurity at NIST! (March 7, 2022) Cybersecurity Education and Workforce Development: Employer-Driven and...

50th Anniversary of Cybersecurity at NIST

For 50 years, NIST—formerly the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), until 1988—has conducted cybersecurity research and developed...

IEEE ICC2022 The 2nd Workshop on Spectrum Sharing Technology for Next Generation Communications

Call for Papers Due to the ever-increasing demands on wireless communications and limited radio spectrum resources, dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) is a key

Benchmarking through NextG Alliance

In July 2015, NIST kicked off the NextG Channel Model Alliance, a consortium of companies, academia, and government organizations...

Modeling Tool Vendors

In support of NIST's mission, we work collaboratively with Industry and several modeling tool vendors that are using NIST high quality...

Contributions to the ITU

Starting in 2014, numerous measurement campaigns to collect directional channel propagation data in both indoor and outdoor environments...

Attenuation in Vegetation

NIST conducted two measurement campaigns to collect channel propagation data on seven different types of trees using the Terragraph* 60.5...

Human Presence

The complete model for human presence goes farther than previous efforts, incorporating reflection from the body before and after human...

Building Penetration Loss

Lacking to date is the characterization of loss at different points of incidence and at different angles of incidence across the surface of...

Methane leak monitoring and tech transfer

Methane is generally considered to be the second most critical greenhouse gas and is estimated to be responsible for approximately half the...

Quasi-Deterministic Channel Model

We reduced the parameters of the Quasi-Deterministic channel propagation model, recently adopted by the IEEE 802.11ay task group for next...

Small-Scale Fading

The constructive and destructive interference gives rise to a phenomenon known as small-scale fading , where the strength of a received...

AI-Assisted Channel Modeling

Through laborious human visual inspection, we are able to “stitch” together hundreds of images of the channel coupled with an environment...

Switched-Array Channel Sounders

NIST developed three switched-array channel sounders at mmWave frequencies that can precisely measure radio propagation channel...

Virtual-Array Channel Sounders

To eliminate phase drift, a synchronization cable between the transmitter and receiver is required, limiting deployment range and...

Phased-Array Channel Sounders

NIST has designed and assembled a 60 GHz channel sounder based on phased-array antennas. Our newest 28 GHz boards retain most of the...

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JILA’s Comb Breathalyzer Is Now a Thousandfold More Sensitive to Disease Biomarkers

October 4, 2021

JILA scientists have boosted the sensitivity of their decade-old frequency comb breathalyzer a thousandfold and can detect additional biomarkers of disease —

DHS, NIST Coordinate in Releasing Preliminary Cybersecurity Performance Goals for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems

September 23, 2021

Following up on President Biden’s July 28, 2021, National Security Memorandum on “Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems , the

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Spotlight: An (Almost) Laser-Free Way to Trap Ions for Quantum Computing

September 9, 2021

Look Ma, (almost) no lasers! NIST researchers and collaborators found a potential new way to make more powerful quantum computers based on ions (charged atoms)

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ACMD Seminar: Information-theoretic techniques for examining and affecting biological and artificial computing systems for human-centered goals

Pulkit Grover Carnegie Mellon University Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 3:00 PM EDT (1:00 PM MDT) A video of this talk is available to NIST staff...