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Analytics

The Analytics portfolio supports research around algorithms, datasets, and open-source tools that can be leveraged by public safety...

Location-Based Services

The Location-Based Services (LBS) portfolio focuses on the fields of indoor mapping, tracking, and navigation for the public safety...

Mission Critical Services (MCX)

The Mission Critical Services (MCX) portfolio concentrates on four areas of communications for first responders: direct mode, mission...

User Experience (UX)

The User Experience (UX) portfolio strives for first responders to have tools designed around their specific context, tasks, and...
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NIST Boulder Microfab Lab Goes 'Nano'

The world-class clean room in the NIST Boulder Microfabrication Facility (BMF) has just gotten a bit more crowded – in a good way. Staff members have recently

1997 APS Fellow - Eric Cornell

For pioneering research that led to the first observation of Bose-Einstein condensation in an atomic gas, an observation that has opened a

1998 APS Fellow - Richard Kautz

For experimental and theoretical investigations of Josephson junctions, particularly the nonlinear dynamics of phase locking and chaos

2008 APS Fellow - Scott Diddams

For major contributions to the development of optical frequency comb technology, and particularly for pioneering demonstrations of frequency

2008 APS Fellow - Samuel Benz

For inventing and developing the first Josephson junction array arbitrary waveform synthesizer and using it as a practical quantum-based ac

2010 APS Fellow - Thomas Silva

For his fundamental contributions to the experimental studies of the spin-torque oscillators, their interactions, and collective states, and

2016 APS Fellow - John Kitching

For pioneering the field of chip-scale atomic devices, and integrating new ideas from atomic and optical physics and microscale engineering

Schroedinger's Cat in an Atomic Cage

They say, "You can't have your cake and eat it, too." They say, "You can't be in two places at one time." "They" may be wrong, however, since scientists

Upgrade To Improve Time Signal's Coverage

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced plans to upgrade its radio station WWVB, which broadcasts standard time
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