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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)...

NICE Released the Spring 2020 eNewsletter

May 6, 2020

The Spring 2020 NICE eNewsletter has been published to provide subscribers information on academic, industry, and government developments related to the...

NIST Tools for Searching the Coronavirus Dataset

These new resources developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts in natural language processing and data curation and discovery allow...

MEP Centers Receive Awards to Deploy Advanced Manufacturing Technology Services to U.S. Manufacturers

May 5, 2020

The U.S Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has made 4 cooperative agreement...

NIST Announces Funding for 2020 Standards Curricula Development Program

June 12, 2020

Please note the application deadline for this year’s Standards Services Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program has been extended from June 15 to...

Interdisciplinary Topics

Scientific Foundation Reviews Evidence Management National Commission on Forensic Science Working Groups

NIST Tools for Searching the Coronavirus Dataset

New resources developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts in natural language processing and data curation and discovery allow researchers to get the most...

An illustration of a black box with a human brain in it. The input to the black box is 0's and 1's, the output includes icons of maps, emails, calendar appointments and other data that might be useful in a criminal investigation.

NIST to Digital Forensics Experts: Show Us What You Got

June 2, 2020

Digital forensics experts often extract data from computers and mobile phones that may contain evidence of a crime. Now, researchers at the National Institute...

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 a 2019 Honor Award , the highest achievement bestowed by the Federal Planning Division of the American...

Miral Dizdaroglu Invited Presentations List

Count Invited Talk 220 “Ne-22 Ion-Beam Radiation Damage to DNA; From Initial Free Radical Formation to Resulting DNA Base Damage”, Council...

Miral Dizdaroglu Complete Publications List

Books: Advances in DNA Damage and Repair; Oxygen Radical Effects, Cellular Protection and Biological Consequences , Edited by Miral...

Helping Laser Scanners Measure Up

April 23, 2020

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a novel, accurate, easy-to-operate, time- and labor-saving way to provide...

Request for Information about Profile of Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Services

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) in the Federal Register to gather...

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...

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