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ThermoML

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

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...

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

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...

Value of NASCTN

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

About NASCTN

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

Privacy Office

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

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 physicists Irwin Priest and Chauncey Peters, 1918

NIST Neutral as Butter War Spreads

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
An image of Ernest Kent from NIST’s Industrial Systems Division is analyzed by the Pipelined Image Processing Engine (PIPE) in 1986.

Computer Vision 1986

An image of Ernest Kent from NIST’s Industrial Systems Division is analyzed by the Pipelined Image Processing Engine (PIPE) in 1986. PIPE was an image
Harry Keegan seated at mechanical calculator CIE color coordinates of standard sources, 1958

Calculating Color

Harry Keegan of NIST’s Photometry & Colorimetry Division using a mechanical calculator in 1958 to compute color coordinates for standard sources.
A 300,000-volt simulated lightning bolt produced in NIST’s high-voltage measurement laboratory in 1984.

Lightning in the Lab

A 300,000-volt simulated lightning bolt produced in NIST’s high-voltage measurement laboratory in 1984. NIST helped utilities and manufacturers determine what
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