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2020 Arthur S. Flemming Katharine B. Gebbie Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Federal Service – William D. Phillips

In addition to the Arthur S. Flemming awards given annually to midcareer federal employees, William D. Phillips, a physicist in NIST’s Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML), received the fourth annual Katharine B. Gebbie Lifetime Achievement Award...

In Glowing Colors: Seeing the Spread of Drug Particles in a Forensic Lab

April 22, 2020

When two scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) brought black lights and glow powder into the Maryland State Police crime lab...

AI Research - Security and Resilience

The trustworthiness of AI technologies depends in part on how secure they are. The NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) identifies...

Department of CommerceWomen in STEM (DOCWSTEM) Presents Lunchtime Tech Talk

April 20, 2020

Intellectual Property – Protecting and Promoting Innovation and Business Want to know what intellectual property (IP) is? Interested in learning more about how...

A person wears an exoskeleton and 3D-printed knee apparatus fashioned with reflective markers.

Exoskeleton Research Marches Forward With NIST Study on Fit

August 20, 2020

A shoddily tailored suit or a shrunken T-shirt may not be the most stylish, but wearing them is unlikely to hurt more than your reputation. An ill-fitting...

Naomi Lefkovitz wins 2020 IAPP Vanguard Award

Naomi is recognized for her leadership in the privacy field in many roles throughout her career, including her time at NIST where she's led the meaningful integration of privacy in broader cybersecurity, identity, and technology programs and...

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Safe, Efficient, Reliable: New Science in the Fight Against Killer Drugs

March 24, 2021

NIST researchers give law enforcement and public health experts new tools to combat fentanyl and other synthetic drugs.

A view through a door window of N95 masks being decontaminated.

NIST Tool Could Help Hospitals Repurpose Rooms for Disinfecting N95 Masks

April 16, 2020

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals across the United States are disinfecting N95 masks by placing them in repurposed rooms or shipping containers...

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NIST and OSTP Launch Effort to Improve Search Engines for COVID-19 Research

April 15, 2020

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the White House Office of Science and...

NICE Webinar: The Continuity of Learning and Skills Development in Virtual Environments

Wed, May 13 2020, 2:00 - 3:00pm EDT

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

FY2020 Patents

Multi-source common-view disciplined clock with fail-safe redundancy Abstract Title Disciplined clock for providing a disciplined time and a...

Information and Q&A on the Feb. 2021 NCNR Alert

The following questions include those asked during a Feb. 10, 2021, community meeting or submitted via email. Some of the answers were...

NIST MEP Centers to Receive CARES Act Funding for Pandemic Response

April 13, 2020

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched the application process for $50 million in...

Applicants Webinar: NICE Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) - K12 Cybersecurity Outreach Program

Fri, Apr 17 2020, 2:00pm EDT

The PowerPoint slides used during this webinar can be downloaded here. Speakers: Rodney Petersen Director, National

USGv6 Revision 1

The first version of the of the USGv6 standards profile was published in 2008 and the USGv6 test program became operational in 2009. In the...

Technical Details

Background: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directed [ OMB-M05-22, OMB-IPv6] the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Graduating Cohort of Fellows Inspired by New Thinking on Leadership

April 7, 2020

Eighteen senior leaders recently joined more than 100 other executives as graduates of the Baldrige Executive Fellows Program. During the year-long leadership...

AI Research - Identifying & Managing Harmful Bias in AI

Bias exists in many forms and can become ingrained in the automated systems that help make decisions about our lives. While bias is not...

AI Research - Explainability

A multidisciplinary team of computer scientists, cognitive scientists, mathematicians, and specialists in AI and machine learning with...

Scientific Foundation Reviews

Forensic science plays a crucial role in our criminal justice system. If the right evidence is present, forensic science can help...

Associated Products

Trustworthy Intelligent Networks Product Reference Journal Publication Wang Z., Use of Supervised Machine Learning to Detect Abuse of COVID...

Trustworthy Intelligent Networks Project

Trustworthy Intelligent Networks

NIST is working with industry and academia to improve the trustworthiness and applicability of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to

Microresonators for inductive-detection electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy of volume-limited samples

Planar microresonators are fabricated in the NIST Nanofab, tested in our laboratory, and incorporated into a commercial 9 GHz or NIST-built 34 GHz electron

Now Open: NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference 2020 Call for Presentations

April 1, 2020

6th Annual NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference Call for Presentations: Open April 1 – June 30, 2020 The 2020 NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference...

Engineering of G Protein-Coupled Receptors

We work to engineer novel function in GPCRs using a microbial platform. This enables rapid, and multi-objective engineering, to precisely characterize and tune

AI Research

Artificial Intelligence: Fundamental and Applied Research and Standards NIST AI Vitals Fact Sheet NIST develops tools to measure and...

NIST Funding Manufacturing Institutes to Support Pandemic Response

March 31, 2020

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has opened a funding opportunity for rapid, high...

iEdison Feedback Session Meeting

Mon, Jun 22 2020

The NIST Technology Partnerships Office is overseeing the rebuild of the interagency Edison system for extramural

Mouse Allelic Ladder

The NIST led Mouse Cell Line Authentication Consortium has worked together to validate the method for STR genotyping of mouse cell lines. An STR-targeted

Decennial Cohort of U.S. Executives Begins Prestigious Baldrige Fellowship

March 27, 2020

Ten years ago, based on an idea on how to better engage U.S. executives, a program was created to inspire senior leaders to embrace a systems perspective in...

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