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Inadequate Modeling Data Costs Billions to US Manufacturers

February 12, 2020

Modeling data can reduce redundant design and production activities which include an estimated $8.4 billion spent on engineers answering questions and creating...

Evidence Suggests Increased Flow Time Suppressed US Manufacturing Productivity

Between 2005 and 2016, US multifactor productivity declined an average 0.3 % annually. Some debate has ensued about the cause of this decline or whether there...

Manufacturing GDP Returns to Pre-Recession Levels, Employment Remains Down 10 %

January 24, 2020

Each year, the NIST Applied Economics Office assembles a report that examines public data on US manufacturing. The most recent report identified that US...

Potential Cost Savings as US Manufacturers Spend Billions on Machinery Maintenance

June 24, 2021

As discussed in NIST AMS 100-18 , the cost of machinery maintenance is not well understood; however, Census data estimates that $50 billion was spent on...

Two hands in purple gloves hold onto butane lighters, which are being used to light up two cigarettes poised in a metal device.

Butt Emissions: Study Finds Even Extinguished Cigarettes Give Off Toxins

January 29, 2020

Cigarette butts pile up in parks, beaches, streets and bus stops, places where all types of littering are frowned upon. An estimated more than five trillion...

NIST Economics Hits the Additive Manufacturing Spotlight

July 23, 2019

In late 2014, the Applied Economics Office (AEO) published NIST Special Publication (SP) 1176 , “Costs And Cost Effectiveness of Additive Manufacturing.” For...

FORENSICS@NIST 2020

Thu, Nov 5 - Fri, Nov 6 2020

speaker Presentations November 5th STATISTICS (PDF) CSAFE (PDF) GENETICS (PDF) FIREARMS (PDF) Day 1 RECAP (PDF) November

NCCOE Identity Projects

Special Publication SP 1800-12, Derived Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Credentials In 2005, Personal Identity Verification (PIV)...

Roadmap: NIST Special Publication 800-63-4 Digital Identity Guidelines

Special Publication 800-63, Draft Revision 4 The Draft Fourth Revision of NIST SP 800-63, Digital Identity Guidelines is available for...

Identity and Access Management Roadmap

Draft Identity and Access Management Roadmap OMB Policy Memo M-19-17 assigned the Department of Commerce (NIST) the responsibility to...

Identity and Access Management Projects

EU-U.S. TTC Digital Identity Mapping Exercise Report Collaborative Research on Digital Identity in Public Benefits Delivery NIST Special...

Dynamic Mechanical Metrology Publications and Patents

Publications Vibration Calibration Low-Frequency Calibration of Accelerometers by Rotation in the Gravitational Field at NIST (2026) Optical...

5628 Balance and Scale Calibration and Uncertainties - IAAO Participants Only - CANCELLED

Mon, Jul 13 - Thu, Jul 16 2020

NIST is closely monitoring guidance from Federal, State, and local health authorities on the outbreak of COVID-19. To

An In-Depth Look into Intellectual Property: Part Two

January 21, 2020

Identify NIST Intellectual Property A foundational step in the NIST intellectual property (IP) strategy is to identify the IP developed from NIST’s research and...

2020 Baldrige Examiner Training Experience (Cancelled)

January 22, 2020

The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is offering a limited number of seats in its 2020 examiner training course for a fee through its Baldrige Examiner...

ACMD Seminar: Modeling Chemical Separations in All-Silica Zeolite Crystals and Spiral-Wound Membrane Modules

Robert DeJaco Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center, University of Minnesota Friday, February 21, 2020, 3:00–4:00 PM Building...

Seeking Input on the Baldrige Excellence Framework

January 21, 2020

What are the top strategic and competitiveness challenges you are facing in your organization or sector (or seeing in the organizations you work with)? What are...

Applied Category Theory Workshop (POSTPONED)

The focus of this workshop in on fostering the development of tooling and use-cases supporting the applied category

ACMD Seminar: Subspace-based parameter dimension reduction and manifold extensions

Zachary Grey Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, ITL, NIST Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 3:00–4:00 PM Building 101, Lecture Room B...

TGDC Subcommittee Work - Historical Meetings - HFP Meetings - 2007

Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) Human Factors and Privacy Subcommittee (HFP)* August 10, 2007 Draft Minutes AGENDA 1...

TGDC Subcommittee Work - Historical Meetings - HFP Meetings - 2006

HFP Subcommittee Teleconference Friday, November 17, 2006, 11:00 AM ET Agenda: 0. TGDC and EAC updates from Allan -- John Wack 1. Agenda for...

TGDC Subcommittee Work - Historical Meetings - CRT Meetings - 2006

CRT Teleconference November 30, 2006, 11:00 a.m. EDT Agenda 1) Administrative updates (Allan E.) 2) Proposed agenda for the December 4-5...

Kibble Dynamic Force Standards

The Kibble principle provides SI-traceable force determination from measurements of current, voltage and velocity. We are developing...

Glycan Standard Reference Materials

Impact Force Standard

The NIST Impact force standard performs impact calibration of instrumented hammers and other force transducers. It is based on...

Sinusoidal Force Standard

The NIST 2 kHz force standard provides SI-traceable dynamic force excitation at frequencies up to 2 kHz with expanded uncertainties in the 1...

Dynamic Calibration of Instrumented Charpy Strikers

The Charpy impact test is an experimental test used worldwide for characterizing the notch toughness of metals, and thereby their...

Vibration Calibration of Accelerometers

Calibrations at frequencies from as low as 0.1 Hz to greater than 20 kHz Sensitivity and phase Calibration service currently available from...

Acoustic Anechoic Chamber

Acoustical measurements under free-field conditions; chamber is designed to provide a highly anechoic sound field and a very small ambient...

2020 Advancing Cybersecurity Risk Management Conference FAQs

What are the registration fees for the conference? Will web conferencing be available? Will any of the sessions be recorded and accessible...

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