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Employment and Research Opportunities

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program NIST/NRC Postdoctoral Research Associateships Program NIST Employment (link is external)

ThermoML

ThermoML is an XML-based IUPAC standard for storage and exchange of experimental thermophysical and thermochemical property data. The...

Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Grant Opportunity - Request for Participation

What: The Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program is a grant program offering funding to study and improve mobile communication systems...

CTL 2025 SURF Program

Internships with the Communications Technology Laboratory The 2025 SURF program is designed to provide a paid 11-week hands-on research...

Physical Infrastructure in the Material Measurement Lab

One in nine bridges are structurally deficient, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. The U.S. has more than 4,000 deficient...

Gauging Multi-Kilowatt Laser Power with the Pressure of Light

January 24, 2017

A multi-kilowatt laser beam can cut through steel and melt bricks into glass. Many industries use high-power lasers like these to precisely cut and weld metals

ACMD Seminar: 45 Years of Computational Atomic and Molecular Physics: What Have We Learned

Barry Schneider Applied and Computational Mathematics (ACMD), ITL, NIST Thursday, April 20, 2017, 15:30 - 16:30Building 101, Lecture Room...

Journal of Research of NIST Volume 121

Volume 121 (2016) ISSN: 2165-7254 Journal of Research of NIST Article Types Q-matrix: An Algebraic Formulation for the Analysis and...

NIST Physicists ‘Squeeze’ Light to Cool Microscopic Drum Below Quantum Limit

January 11, 2017

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have cooled a mechanical object to a temperature lower than previously thought possible

Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program 2017

The NIST Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program (PSIAP) Funding Opportunity focused on six key technology areas that have the...

Fracture surface of additive manufactured titanium alloy

NIST Releases Findings from the NIST/ASTM Workshop on Mechanical Behavior of Additive Manufacturing Components

January 6, 2017

The worldwide market for additive manufacturing (AM) products and services is projected to exceed US$6.5 billion by 2019 [1]. Despite this prediction, there are

Impact of LTE Signals on GPS Receivers

The National Advanced Spectrum and Communications Test Network (NASCTN) has completed the Impacts of LTE Signals on GPS Receivers project and has released the

The Research Library’s NIST awardees excel at customer service

January 4, 2017

The NIST Research Library features both excellent basic library services and innovative resources that go far beyond traditional library offerings. This was in

Newsroom

Project Updates: May - August 2019 AWS-3 LTE Impacts on AMT (proposed by Edwards Air Force Base) Test Objective: Perform high quality...

NASCTN Outreach & Events

Past Events EVENT DATE LOCATION DESCRIPTION Out-of-Band Emissions Report Briefing 01/29/2018 Boulder, CO NASCTN hosted a brief for its...

Our Team

NASCTN Steering Committee Members NAME AFFILIATION EMAIL David Goldstein DoD david.goldstein.civ [at] mail.mil (david[dot]goldstein[dot]civ[at]mail[dot]mil) William (Bill) Horne NASA william...

Out-of-Band Emissions Measurements of LTE Devices Operating in the AWS-3 Band

This project developed test processes and performed out-of-band emissions measurements of LTE systems that will be operating in the AWS-3 band so that DOD can

Waveform Measurements of Radars Operating in the 3.5 GHz Band

The focus of this NASCTN project is to develop test methods and perform measurements necessary to characterize the waveforms of radars that operate in the 3.5

Journal of Research of NIST Article Types

The Journal of Research of NIST ( JRes NIST) accepts dataset and software articles, tutorials, and tech transfer briefs, in addition to the...

Visiting NASCTN

If you are planning a visit to NASCTN, please contact Melissa Midzor, NASCTN Program Manager, to make arrangements. Once you have done...

Value of NASCTN

DOD and Federal Agencies’ needs Spectrum to operate systems for national security and public services Avoid costs and disruptions of...

About NASCTN

History The National Advanced Spectrum and Communications Test Network (NASCTN) was established by NIST, NTIA and DOD in March of 2015 to...

Leadership

Illustration of strontium lattice atomic clock

JILA Atomic Clock Mimics Long-sought Synthetic Magnetic State in Solids

December 21, 2016

Using their advanced atomic clock to mimic other desirable quantum systems, JILA physicists have caused atoms in a gas to behave as if they possess unusual

Privacy Office

NIST is committed to safeguarding personal privacy. Individual trust in the privacy and security of personally identifiable information is a...

ACMD Seminar: Data-driven fractal modeling for blackout and malicious threat detection

Edmond Jonckheere Professor, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California Tuesday, January 24, 2017 15...

TRC staff

For a full list of current members, see TRC's NIST staff page. Pictured below are photos of TRC personnel in previous years. 2017 2009

NIST 2016 Awards Recognize Staff for Outstanding Performance

December 15, 2016

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this week recognized more than 100 staff members for their service to the country

February 2017 VCAT Meeting Agenda

AGENDAVISITING COMMITTEE ON ADVANCED TECHNOLOGYNational Institute of Standards and TechnologyAdministration Building, Portrait...

NIST Neutral as Butter War Spreads

January 6, 2017

In 1917, NIST physicists Irwin Priest and Chauncey Peters were drawn into the so-called Butter War, an early 20 th century commercial and political spat between