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Wellstar Paulding Hospital

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2020 Award Recipient, Health Care Download Printable PDF Highest-Ranking Official* John Kueven, MBA...

Serology and Neutralization Assays for COVID-19

The global response to COVID-19 is leading to rapid advances in diagnostic, surveillance, and vaccine and therapeutic development. A critical measurement

5707 Document Control and Record Keeping

Thu, Mar 4 2021, 2:00 - 4:00pm EST

This 2-hour webinar will introduce the fundamentals of Laboratory Management System Document Control and Record Keeping

NICE Webinar: Competencies – The Next Frontier for Closing the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Wed, Dec 16 2020, 2:00 - 3:00pm EST

The PowerPoint slides used during this webinar can be downloaded here. Download the Continuing Education Units form

Comments Received for Cybersecurity Profile for the Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Services

Comments received on the draft NISTIR 8323: Cybersecurity Profile for the Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT)...

Explainable AI Workshop

Tue, Jan 26 - Thu, Jan 28 2021

January 26, 2021 | Explainable AI Workshop January 27 and January 28, 2021 | Breakout Sessions January 28, 2021 |

DevSecOps and Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) for Multi-Cloud Environments

Wed, Jan 27 2021

Co-hosted by Tetrate Video Recordings from the Event This 1-day virtual conference will focus on DevSecOps and ZTA as

New Airflow Videos Show Why Masks With Exhalation Valves Do Not Slow the Spread of COVID-19

November 10, 2020

Many people wear masks in public to slow the spread of COVID-19, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, masks with...

Flaming Tests on Upholstered Chair Mock-Ups

The effectiveness and the failure mechanism of fire barriers in residential upholstered furniture (RUF) were investigated by full-scale...

Jacob Taylor Named OSA Fellow

For contributions using quantum properties of light and matter for applications ranging from extremely sensitive sensors to quantum information processing.

Sergey V. Polyakov Named OSA Fellow

For contributions using quantum properties of light for optical metrology, communication, and biosensing beyond classical limits.

MEP State Partnership Support Project FY 2021

Back to Closed Notice of Funding Opportunities UPDATE: This opportunity has closed. 2021 State Partnership Support Program Notice of Federal...

Draft FIPS 201-3 and Workshop: Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors

November 3, 2020

NIST requests comments on Draft Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201-3, Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors...

Low Heat Release Upholstered Furniture

To reduce the flammability of residential upholstered furniture (RUF), the fire safety community has developed various test methods and...

OSAC Standards Bulletin - November 2020

This Standards Bulletin from the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science provides an update on: Standards moving through the OSAC...

Research Data Framework (RDaF)

In the past decade, research data have become widely recognized as a critical national and global resource, and the risks of losing or mismanaging research data

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NIST Recognized by Microscopy Today

June Lau of NIST, Yimea Zhu of Brookhaven National Lab, and Chunguang Jing, Eric Montgomery, Yubin Zhao, Wade Rush, Ao Liu, and Ilya Ponomarev of Euclid Labs are recognized for a relatively inexpensive pulsing device that converts an existing...

NIST Flow Cytometry Standards Consortium 

BECOME A MEMBER : • Complete the Letter of Interest Form  • Participants will sign a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA); government agencies

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NIST Researchers Advance Efforts to Accurately Measure Glyphosate Pesticide in Common Foods

November 2, 2020

Pesticides help farmers increase food production, reduce costly damage to crops, and even prevent the spread of insect-borne diseases, but since the chemicals...

Room Temperature Conversion of CO₂ to CO: A New Way to Synthesize Hydrocarbons

November 2, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could...

Ideas for Engagement

Social Media Plan | Work, School, and Community | Home Family Fun Help inspire, engage, and inform the public about the demand...

Reduced-Scale Test to Assess the Effect of Fire Barriers on the Flaming Combustion of Cored Composites

This study proposes a bench-scale fire test methodology based on the cone-calorimeter to characterize mass and heat transfer phenomena in...

Nik Hrabe Honored by ASTM International

Nik Hrabe of the Fatigue and Fracture Group (647.02) in the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division has been selected to receive the ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Young Professional Award for leadership of standards development in the...

NIST Offers ‘Quick-Start’ Guide for Its Security and Privacy Safeguards Catalog

October 29, 2020

If you’ve ever tried to set up a home entertainment system by poring over a thick manual, you might appreciate the manufacturer also providing you with a quick...

Control Baselines for Information Systems and Organizations: NIST Publishes SP 800-53B

October 29, 2020

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-53B, Control Baselines for Information Systems and Organizations, provides security and privacy control baselines for the...

Full-Scale Experiments to Demonstrate Flammability Risk of Residential Upholstered Furniture and Mitigation Using Barrier Fabric

This study looks at fire growth in a furnished compartment intended to mimic a living room where a couch, either with or without a barrier...

Standards Efforts

ASTM international group F45 on Robotics, Automation, and Autonomous Systems contains a subcommittee F45.05 on Grasping and manipulation...

Security Guidelines for Storage Infrastructure: NIST SP 800-209

October 26, 2020

Storage infrastructure—along with compute (encompassing OS and host hardware) and network infrastructures—is one of the three fundamental pillars of Information...

New NICE Strategic Plan Includes Focus on Discovery of Cybersecurity Careers, Transforming Learning, and Modernizing Talent Management

October 27, 2020

The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) today released the NICE Strategic Plan at the annual NICE Conference and Expo 2020. The event is...

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Advanced Atomic Clock Makes a Better Dark Matter Detector

November 12, 2020

JILA researchers have used a state-of-the-art atomic clock to narrow the search for elusive dark matter, an example of how continual improvements in clocks have...

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