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ANSI/IEEE N42.42 2020 version

ANSI/IEEE N42.42 Standard Project The ANSI/IEEE N42.42 was revised in 2019 to address minor issues and changes in listed URLs. For this...

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NIST Awards More Than $4 Million to Small Businesses for Innovations in AI, Wildfire Forecasting and More

October 1, 2020

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded 19 small businesses in 12 states a total...

Registration now OPEN for the Virtual NICE Conference Series!

September 28, 2020

2020 NICE Conference & Expo REGISTRATION NOW OPEN WEEKLY CONFERENCE SUB-THEMES Growing & Sustaining the NICE Community Tuesday, October 27 | 1 - 5:15 PM EDT The...

Alexey V. Gorshkov Named 2020 APS Fellow

For contributions to the understanding, design, & control of quantum many-body atomic, molecular, & optical systems & their applications to phase transitions, entanglement generation & propagation, synthetic magnetism, & quantum memory & simulation.

Daniel S. Hussey Named 2020 APS Fellow

For novel developments in neutron radiography and tomography.

NIST Quality Assurance Program for Health Assessment Measurements Open for Registration

March 26, 2021

The latest exercise in NIST's Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program ( HAMQAP) is open for registration. HAMQAP, a collaboration with the...

Quantum Matchmaking: New NIST System Detects Ultra-Faint Communications Signals Using the Principles of Quantum Physics

September 23, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised and demonstrated a system that could dramatically increase the performance...

Former Voting Subgroup Twiki Pages Crosswalk

READ-ONLY SITE MATERIALS: Historical voting TWiki site (2015-2020) ARCHIVED from https://collaborate.nist.gov/voting/bin/view/Voting Former...

NIST Scientists Get Soft on 3D Printing

September 22, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new method of 3D-printing gels and other soft materials. Published in...

NIST Awards $11 Million to MEP Centers in 10 States

September 21, 2020

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has made 12 cooperative agreement...

Fall 2020 NICE eNewsletter Available

September 21, 2020

The Fall 2020 NICE eNewsletter is available now. The NICE eNewsletter is published quarterly to provide information on academic, industry, and government...

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NIST Innovation Could Improve Detection of COVID-19 Infections

October 5, 2020

A multidisciplinary research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a way to increase the sensitivity of the primary...

Auditing Use Case

READ-ONLY SITE MATERIALS: Historical voting TWiki site (2015-2020) ARCHIVED from https://collaborate.nist.gov/voting/bin/view/Voting The...

Kenneth Bennett Process Models

READ-ONLY SITE MATERIALS: Historical voting TWiki site (2015-2020) ARCHIVED from https://collaborate.nist.gov/voting/bin/view/Voting...

NIST and the Internet Keep Safe Coalition Join Forces on K12 Cybersecurity Education

September 16, 2020

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have announced a new cooperative agreement with the Internet Keep Safe...

NIST Scientists Reveal the Power Behind the Curtain — With Neutrons

September 16, 2020

In a potential step forward for imaging technology, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Sandia National Laboratories...

Laws and Regulations Resources

NIST Handbook 133 – Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods Section 3.10. Mulch and Soils Labeled by Volume Prerecorded Webinar: The...

NICE eNewsletter Fall 2020

Subscribe to the NICE eNewsletter Welcome Fall is always an invigorating time of year at the NICE Program Office. With the changing colors...

NanoFab Tool: Zeiss Gemini 500 Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope

The Zeiss Gemini 500 Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM) is a high resolution FE-SEM which provides nanoscale imaging from 100 mm diameter

Technical Language Processing Community of Interest

For the most up to date information, please visit our Slack Channel and our GIT homepage ! You can also find a variety of resources there...

NICE Webinar: Addressing the Cybersecurity Talent Gap at Scale - Introducing Learning and Employment Records

Wed, Oct 21 2020, 2:00 - 3:00pm EDT

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

2-Photon Optical Clock Collaboration team

2020 Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award

The team is being recognized “for the development of an optical atomic clock architecture that leverages microfabricated photonic components, leading to a vast reduction in size, weight, and power for next generation applications in timing...

Quantum Economic Development Consortium Confirms Steering Committee

September 16, 2020

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) has formally established its steering committee with the signing of participation...

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Macromolecular Architectures

There is always a degree of uncertainty surrounding measurements of polymeric materials, especially complex mixtures with varying distributions in chemistry

Responses to PRE-DRAFT Call for Comments: Digital Identity Guidelines

Comments Received in Response To PRE-DRAFT Call for Comments: Digital Identity Guidelines Received From Received From Rahul Parthe Sam Smith...

Painting With Light: Novel Nanopillars Precisely Control the Color and Intensity of Transmitted Light

September 4, 2020

By shining white light on a glass slide stippled with millions of tiny titanium dioxide pillars, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and...

Metrologies for Non-linear Materials in Impact Mitigation

First responders, athletes, consumers, and the military rely on protective equipment to prevent blunt trauma from an impact. Understanding of the relationship

Small Business Cybersecurity Case Study Series

Ransomware, phishing, and ATM skimming are just a few very common and very damaging cybersecurity threats that Small Businesses need to...

Trustworthy Networks Program

NIST works with industry partners to advance the research, standardization and adoption of technologies necessary to increase the security, privacy, resilience

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