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NIST MEP Center State Competition FY2026

Back to Closed Federal Funding Opportunities UPDATE: This opportunity has closed. Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) The NIST Hollings...

NIST and University Researchers Present Online Tool to Support IEEE Standards at 2024 IECON

December 1, 2024

NIST researcher Dr. Eugene Song, Dr. Helbert da Rocha (University of Beira Interior, Portugal), and collaborators demonstrated an online tool called the IEEE...

NIST Researcher and Team Present on IoT Sensor Networks at 2024 IEEE IECON

December 1, 2024

NIST researcher Dr. Eugene Song and Prof. Hiroaki Nishi (Keio University, Japan) presented a research paper titled “Security for IEEE P1451.1.6-based Sensor...

NIST Leaders Address the 21st International ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications in Tunisia

December 1, 2024

NIST researcher leaders Edward Griffor, Tao Zhang, and Abdella Battou addressed the 21 st International ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems...

NIST Industrial Wireless Team Meets with NEMA Welding Group

December 1, 2024

On November 18, 2024, the NIST Industrial Wireless Research Team, led by NIST research leader Rick Candell, met with the National Electrical Manufacturers...

NIST Smart Connected Systems Staff Recognized at the 52nd NIST Annual Awards Ceremony

January 1, 2025

On January 15, 2025, NIST held its 52 nd Annual Awards Ceremony in Gaithersburg Maryland, and Boulder, Colorado. At this celebratory event, several NIST Smart...

NIST Researchers Meet with NHTSA Experts to Share Approaches to Assessment of Automated Vehicle System Performance

January 1, 2025

Measurement science and standards are needed to support the safe and predictable operation of future automated vehicles (AVs), and to realize their potential to...

NIST Hosts Second Stakeholder Workshop on Digital Twins

January 1, 2025

On January 14, 2025, NIST held the second of three stakeholder workshops in its ongoing series on Digital Twins, building upon the initial workshop held in...

NIST Researchers Present 5G/6G Core Network Testbed to Korean Visitors

January 1, 2025

On 5-7 November 2024, NIST’s Transformational Networks and Services Group hosted a team of researchers from South Korea in a hybrid meeting, held at the NIST...

NIST Researcher Provides Insights on IoT Sensor Devices Interoperability Testing Framework

January 1, 2025

NIST researcher Dr. Eugene Song and Mr. Sridhar Kowdley from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) co-presented on...

NIST Researcher Receives IEEE Standards Medallion Award

January 1, 2025

On December 8, 2024, Dr. Eugene Song was recognized at the 2024 IEEE Standards Association (SA) Awards Ceremony held in Somerset, New Jersey. At this annual...

NIST Associate Receives IEEE Standards Association Lifetime Achievement Award

January 1, 2025

NIST’s Mr. Kang B. Lee, a long-time NIST staff member and currently an associate with the Industrial Wireless Systems Project team after his retirement, was...

Angela Robinson awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Angela Robinson has been awarded the PECASE for her innovative work in the field of Post-Quantum Cryptography and privacy-enhancing cryptography. She helped develop a practical algorithm for privacy-preserving proximity detection with a direct...

2024 PECASE - Jeffrey Shainline

Jeffrey Shainline is recognized for pioneering a new type of neuromorphic computer that closely mimics the human brain, both in the number of interconnections between “neurons” and in its low operating power requirements. Creating a practical...

Justyna Zwolak honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Dr. Justyna Zwolak was awarded the PECASE for breakthrough research combining machine learning, computer vision, and physics-based heuristics to calibrate and control quantum systems, with particular emphasis on enabling the scale-up of semiconductor...

2024 PECASE - Nikolai Klimov

Nikolai Klimov is recognized for transformational research in photonic sensors for thermometry, dosimetry, humidity, and vacuum and for working with industry partners to bring these new technologies to the marketplace. He is an innovative technology...

2024 PECASE - Stephen Eckel

Stephen Eckel is recognized for his pioneering work in applying cold-atom physics to solve real-world measurement problems, investigating the enabling physics, and leading the development of the first deployable, practical cold-atom-based device with...

Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (DSQAP) Consortium

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Open Industrial Digital Ecosystem Summit

Tue, Apr 8 - Fri, Apr 11 2025

The Open Industrial Digital Ecosystem Summit is an annual event bringing together thought leaders, experts

ITL Leadership

2024 Distinguished Associate Award - Linsey Rodenbach, Ngoc Thanh Mai Tran, Zachary Barcikowski, Frank Siefert, I-Fan Hu, Lorenz H. Keck, Shamith U. Payagala, Chieh-I Liu, and Dipanjan Saha

Related to the Gold Medal “For leveraging quantum physics to develop the world’s best standards for the ampere and kilogram, 2 of the 7 fundamental measurement units of science.”

2024 Distinguished Associate Award - Frank Seifert and Kumar Arumugam

Related to the Rabinow Award “For the development of compact Kibble balance technology for mass and torque and its deployment to primary standards laboratories and U.S. industry.”

2022 Katharine B. Gebbie Young Investigator Award - Albert Rigosi

For using the quantum hall effect in graphene for defining the ohm. Did you know that the United States recently became the first nation to use graphene in how the unit of the ohm is defined? Monolayer epitaxial graphene has been shown to have...

2024 Katharine B. Gebbie Young Investigator Award - Nicole Yunger Halpern

For “innovative technical contributions to the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics, while vivifying the subject in the public consciousness.”

Executive Orders

Executive Order on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation's Cybersecurity Executive Order 14028, Improving the Nation's...

2025 MBE & QIF Summit Update

January 20, 2025 - April 6, 2025

The 2025 MBE & QIF Summit event is returning to MxD (Manufacturing x Digital) headquarters in Chicago, IL, April 15 - 17, 2025. The 2025 event will bring the...

Side-by-side photos show a buoy with attached scientific devices on the deck of a ship and then floating in the ocean.

Spotlight: NIST Dives In to Help Measure Ocean Color

November 8, 2024

Thanks to a collaboration between NASA and NIST, a new ocean color sensor buoy has been deployed off the western coast of Australia.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Communications Technology Laboratory Celebrates its 52nd Annual Awards Ceremony Recipients

February 4, 2025

The Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL) congratulates the award recipients of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at the 52nd...

Meet Dr. Midzor: Championing Innovation in Communications Technology

February 4, 2025

Dr. Midzor, newly appointed Director of the Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

NIST OWM Info Hour: Proﬁciency Testing Program for U.S. State Weights and Measures Laboratories

Thu, Oct 16 2025, 2:00 - 3:00pm EDT

This Info Hour will provide attendees with an overview of OWM’s proﬁciency testing (PT) program, describe how the

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