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NIST Special Publication 800-181 revision 1, the Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework), describes cybersecurity work and...

Howard Community College

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2019 Award Recipient, Education Download Printable PDF Highest-Ranking Official* Kathleen...

Center for Organ Recovery & Education

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2019 Award Recipient, Nonprofit Download Printable PDF Highest-Ranking Official* Susan A. Stuart...

U.S. Celebration of World Standards Day

November 7, 2019

Good evening and thank you, Joe, for that kind introduction. I am grateful to ANSI, for your close partnership with NIST, and for ANSI’s leadership roles in the...

Upcoming “Accelerate R2 Network Challenge” to Award $1 Million

November 7, 2019

The Economic Development Agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and First Responder Network Authority are issuing a national challenge to

City of Germantown, TN

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2019 Award Recipient, Nonprofit Download Printable PDF Highest-Ranking Official* Patrick Lawton City...

Kuldeep Prasad Receives the 2019 CO-LABS Governor’s Award for High-Impact Research

Free range frequency combs - a collaborative journey from national lab to Colorado's oil and gas fields" which has been selected as a

ACMD Seminar: On Entropy Inequality and Ordered Rate Constitutive Theories for Homogeneous, Isotropic, and Compressible matter under finite deformation with thermal effects

Daniel Nunez LPI, Inc. Tuesday, Dec 3, 2019, 3:00–4:00 PM Building 101, West Square Gaithersburg Tuesday, Dec 3, 2019, 1:00–2:00 PM...

Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2019 Award Recipient, Nonprofit Download Printable PDF Highest-Ranking Official* Brian Collins...

Mary Greeley Medical Center

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2019 Award Recipient, Health Care Download Printable PDF Highest-Ranking Official* Brian R. Dieter...

Former Advisory Board Member: Dr. Willie E. May

Resigned from the Board September 2021

A Solution to a Hairy Problem in Forensic Science

November 5, 2019

In an effort to make hair comparison a more useful technique for investigating crimes, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

TODAY: Tech Transfer Event on Building Communication Bridges across Organizations

Tue, Nov 5 - Wed, Nov 6 2019

The Federal Labs Consortium (FLC) of the Mid-Atlantic region will be hosting a two-day conference focused on “Building

Adventist Health White Memorial

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2019 Award Recipient, Health Care Download Printable PDF Highest-Ranking Official* John Raffoul...

DOC Combined Federal Campaign Rally

Tue, Nov 19 2019

NIST/DOC Employees Please save the date for the Department of Commerce (DOC) Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) Rally

Several rectangular pieces of flat metal, a fake key and a rectangular "gun shaped" piece of metal are arranged on a table.

NIST Develops New Standards to Improve Metal-Detector Testing

November 6, 2019

Metal detectors now appear routinely in the entrances of many schools, airports and even houses of worship. They serve as portals to correctional facilities

SBIR funds internationally marketable quality audit instrument

November 1, 2019

En’Urga Inc., an advanced diagnostic equipment company, recently found success with a Small Business Innovation Research award from the National Institute of

Electric Field Gradient reference prototype

Electrical Scanning Probe Microscopy

Develop and apply advanced measurement methods, electric field reference materials, and COMSOL models to make electrical scanning probe microscopes (eSPMs)

Infrastructure Materials Group

The Infrastructure Materials Group conducts research to predict performance of conventional and innovative materials, components, and systems composing US buildings and infrastructure throughout the service life by developing a fundamental understanding of the performance properties and the

The Half of It: Argentinian Metrologist Builds NIST-Inspired ‘Half-Angle’ Measurement System

October 30, 2019

When Jorge Campbell, an engineer from Argentina’s National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI), visited the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Venture Capitalists Share Their Insights With NIST

October 30, 2019

GAITHERSBURG, Maryland – The Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) hosted a NIST-wide discussion with experienced venture capitalists about how to pitch

A twist and a spin: harnessing two quantum properties transforms a neutron beam into a powerful probe of material structure

October 29, 2019

By cleverly manipulating two properties of a neutron beam, NIST scientists and their collaborators have created a powerful probe of materials that have complex

Fire Protection Research Foundation Medal

Medal Recognizes the Fire Protection Research Foundation Project

Medal recognizes the Fire Safety Challenges of Tall Wood Buildings Project

Annular dark-field image of a grain boundary with EELS maps showing the cation distribution at the interfacial region. P

In Situ Measurements of Thermodynamics and Reaction Kinetics During Synthesis and Functioning of Nanomaterials Using Transmission Electron Microscopy Based Techniques

Understanding and measuring synthesis-structure-property relationship at nanoscale is a fundamental step for designing nanoscale structures such as nanotubes