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Gaithersburg

Exporting Services

Nearly 95% of global consumers and 84% of spending power is found outside the U.S. making exporting extremely appealing for business growth...

2020 Peter M.A. Sherwood Mid-Career Professional Award

Christopher Szakal , MML Chief of Staff, is being recognized for “pioneering work which has led to the development of novel chemical

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Greta Babakhanova Wins Brown Prize

The Glenn H. Brown Prize awards doctoral students whose PhD theses demonstrate an outstanding contribution to the science of liquid crystals

Winnie Wong-Ng Inducted into Hall of Distinction

Established in 2004, the Hall of Distinction celebrates individuals who have made significant contributions to science, business, academia

NIST Awards $8.9 Million to Fund High-Impact Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Projects to Battle COVID-19

May 27, 2020

Authorized by the CARES Act, the funding will go to the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL).

An off-road vehicle on a hill is seen below a map of territory, which is surrounded by a compass, a clock and a satellite.

NIST Seeks Public Input on Use of Positioning, Navigation and Timing Services

May 27, 2020

Agency plans guidance to strengthen cybersecurity of related tech in response to White House order.

Comments Received for RFI on Profile of Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Services

Comments Received in Response to the Request for Information about public and private sector use of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT...

Microstructure-Property Tools for Structure-Property Design

Computational materials design requires a variety of tools to model processing-structure-property relationships across a range of time and length scales. This

2020 Women in Biometrics Award winner: Mei Ngan

The incredible advancements made by the dedicated professionals leading this field are helping keep our cities and citizens, our companies

NIST Names Mojdeh Bahar as Associate Director for Innovation and Industry Services

May 22, 2020

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mojdeh

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NIST Study Measures Performance Accuracy of Contactless Fingerprinting Tech

May 19, 2020

NIST evaluated 6 contactless fingerprinting tools, comparing their performance to devices that require physical contact.

Ram Sriram selected as Solid Modeling Association (SMA) Fellow

Ram D. Sriram’s technical leadership in design automation spans nearly three decades in academia and government. In the mid 1980s, during

Statistics Task Group

this task group has been sunset, effective october 1, 2025. The FSSB’s Statistics Task Group is primarily comprised of at least one member...

Terminology Task Group

The FSSB’s Terminology Task Group is comprised of members from various OSAC units and is responsible for the management of the OSAC...

Vivek Prabhu named ACS PMSE Fellow

For developing measurements that identify the resolution limit of the chemically amplified photoresists that are used in semiconductor

ACMD Seminar: Physics-Informed Machine Learning to Infer Dynamics from Data

Biswadip Dey Siemens Corporate Technology Thursday, May 21, 2:30-3:30 PM EDT Online via BlueJeans. Contact acmdseminar [at] nist.gov (acmdseminar[at]nist[dot]gov) for details...

NICE Webinar: The Challenge of That First Job in Cybersecurity - Entry Level Roles and How to Qualify

Wed, Jun 17 2020, 2:00 - 3:00pm EDT

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

Two Universities Receive NIST Funding to Develop Standards Curricula

October 1, 2018

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has made two awards totaling $150,000 to support

Twenty Organizations Will Be Evaluated for 2020 Baldrige Award

May 12, 2020

Twenty organizations have submitted applications for the 2020 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. They include 11 health care organizations, 6 nonprofit

Two New Forensic DNA Standards Added to the OSAC Registry

May 12, 2020

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science has placed two new standards covering the interpretation of DNA evidence on its

NIST Scientists Create New Recipe for Single-Atom Transistors

May 11, 2020

Once unimaginable, transistors consisting only of several-atom clusters or even single atoms promise to become the building blocks of a new generation of

New Summit Consulting and W.E. Upjohn Institute Study Finds MEP Generates Substantial 13.4:1 ROI Among Other Positive Findings

May 6, 2020

A recent study by Summit Consulting and the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research found the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST)

NIST Gaithersburg Campus Master Plan Wins 2019 Honor Award for the most Outstanding Federal Planning Project from the American Planning Association (APA)

The Gaithersburg Campus Master Plan developed by the Capital Asset Management and Facilities Planning Group within OFPM was recognized with

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