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Safeguarding Critical Infrastructure: NIST Releases Draft Cybersecurity Guidance, Develops GPS-Free Backup for Timing Systems

October 23, 2020

Taking another step toward strengthening the nation’s critical infrastructure, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has drafted guidelines...

Cybersecurity Profile for the Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Services: Draft NISTIR 8323 Available for Comment

October 22, 2020

NIST has released Draft NISTIR 8323, Cybersecurity Profile for the Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Services, for public review and...

Elena Messina is Showcased in Robotics

For providing a wonderful role model to aspiring young robot builders and women who want to build the future using robots to solve global challenges.

Measuring Intermolecular Interactions with Electro-Acoustic Spectroscopy

NIST’s Material Measurement Laboratory and Communications Technology Laboratory are developing a new spectroscopy for intermolecular interactions. The team is

An Empirical Study on Flow-based Botnet Attacks Prediction: NIST Technical Note 2111

October 22, 2020

Today, NIST is publishing NIST Technical Note (TN) 2111, An Empirical Study on Flow-based Botnet Attacks Prediction. In the era of the Internet of Things...

A steel column with a deep web on the left and a steel column with a shallow web on the right.

Proposed Updates to Steel Building Standard Could Enhance Earthquake Resilience

January 7, 2022

Since the mid-1990s, a type of steel column that commonly features slender cross-sectional elements has become more prevalent in buildings along the West Coast...

Identification, Suitability Testing, and Property Determination from Untargeted Measurements

Many polymeric fluids, including biotherapeutics and fuels, can have unusual physical behavior in solutions, and many applications require detailed knowledge of

Consistency Analysis and Uncertainty in ‘omic Data

As ‘omics moves into industrial and commercial applications, there is a need for quality and process control to ensure safety and efficacy of products and

Machine Learning to Predict Multicomponent Colloidal Crystals

We use machine learning and other computational techniques to predict the self-assembly characteristics of multicomponent colloidal materials. This is a

Machine Learning to Predict Food Provenance

Without the capacity to verify food provenance, the health and well-being of consumers is at risk; moreover, food fraud creates a significant impact on the

Machine Learning Fluid Equations of State

By using machine learning approaches, we seek to elucidate underlying universal characteristics of fluids and fluid mixtures that enable property prediction

Classification Methods for the NIST Biorepository

We aim to identify chemometric fingerprints using artificial intelligence methods that reflect the temporal and geographic history of seabirds, and by extension

Diagram shows a mattress being set on fire by gas burners in a standard flammability test.

Mattress Flammability Standard Is a Lifesaver, NIST Report Finds

November 18, 2020

No matter how soft and cozy, beds that have gone up in flames are a source of some of the deadliest fires in the U.S. As large pieces of furniture loaded with...

A novel, low-cost method detects nanoscale contaminants during manufacture of semiconductor devices

October 19, 2020

As computer chips and other electronic devices continue to shrink in size, they become ever more sensitive to contamination. However, detecting the nanoscale...

NIST MEP Competitive Awards Program (CAP)

Back to Open Federal Funding Opportunities 2021 Competitive Awards Program Notice of Federal Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Amended Date: March...

NIST Designs a Prototype Fuel Gauge for Orbit

November 12, 2020

Liquids aren’t as well behaved in space as they are on Earth. Inside a spacecraft, microgravity allows liquids to freely slosh and float about. This behavior...

A man faces away from the camera, taking a photo of a damaged storefront.

Natural Disaster Preparations May Aid Businesses’ Pandemic Response

October 19, 2020

The social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have battered small and medium-sized enterprises, putting millions of jobs in the U.S. at risk. And a year rife with...

Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM): NISTIR 8286

October 13, 2020

The increasing frequency, creativity, and variety of cybersecurity attacks means that all enterprises should ensure cybersecurity risk receives the appropriate...

A Billion Tiny Pendulums Could Detect the Universe’s Missing Mass

October 13, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have proposed a novel method for finding dark matter, the cosmos’s...

What Laser Color Do You Like?

October 13, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have developed a microchip technology that can convert...

NIST Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program: Archived News Items

Archived News Items Funding Opportunity for Standards Curricula Development Program 2026 Application deadline: July 13, 2026 NIST’s...

Terrence Jach Named American Vacuum Society Fellow

For many contributions to the development of photoemission, Auger electron spectroscopy, X-ray standing wave, and soft X-ray emission spectroscopy and outstanding leadership to AVS.

Thermal MagIC: New NIST Project to Build Nano-Thermometers Could Revolutionize Temperature Imaging

October 9, 2020

Cheaper refrigerators? Stronger hip implants? A better understanding of human disease? All of these could be possible and more, someday, thanks to an ambitious...

Robert Snelick Named 2020 HL7 Fellow

This honor was bestowed upon Rob for his many contributions to HL7 for over a decade and a half, particularly regarding his leadership and advancement of conformance and testing of HL7 standards – which are the most widely used healthcare standards...

Gaithersburg

Safeguarding Critical Infrastructure: NIST Releases Draft Cybersecurity Guidance, Develops GPS-Free Backup for Timing Systems

Cybersecurity Profile for the Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Services: Draft NISTIR 8323 Available for Comment

Elena Messina is Showcased in Robotics

Measuring Intermolecular Interactions with Electro-Acoustic Spectroscopy

An Empirical Study on Flow-based Botnet Attacks Prediction: NIST Technical Note 2111

Proposed Updates to Steel Building Standard Could Enhance Earthquake Resilience

Identification, Suitability Testing, and Property Determination from Untargeted Measurements

Consistency Analysis and Uncertainty in ‘omic Data

Machine Learning to Predict Multicomponent Colloidal Crystals

Machine Learning to Predict Food Provenance

Machine Learning Fluid Equations of State

Classification Methods for the NIST Biorepository

Mattress Flammability Standard Is a Lifesaver, NIST Report Finds

A novel, low-cost method detects nanoscale contaminants during manufacture of semiconductor devices

NIST MEP Competitive Awards Program (CAP)

NIST Designs a Prototype Fuel Gauge for Orbit

Natural Disaster Preparations May Aid Businesses’ Pandemic Response

Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM): NISTIR 8286

A Billion Tiny Pendulums Could Detect the Universe’s Missing Mass

What Laser Color Do You Like?

NIST Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program: Archived News Items

Terrence Jach Named American Vacuum Society Fellow

Thermal MagIC: New NIST Project to Build Nano-Thermometers Could Revolutionize Temperature Imaging

Robert Snelick Named 2020 HL7 Fellow

NIST Cybersecurity Expert Donna Dodson Receives Service to America Medal

Lisa Ng Receives IBPSA-USA Emerging Contributor Award

Ronald Bishop Honored by American Ceramic Society

U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office Celebrate MFG Day 2020

NIST Launches an Updated Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science

ANSI/IEEE N42.42 2020 version