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Gaithersburg

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 Pathfinding Partnerships winners of the 2019 Governor’s Awards for High-Impact Research. Dual Comb Spectroscopy...

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

Gaithersburg

City of Germantown, TN

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

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

Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund

Mary Greeley Medical Center

Former Advisory Board Member: Dr. Willie E. May

A Solution to a Hairy Problem in Forensic Science

TODAY: Tech Transfer Event on Building Communication Bridges across Organizations

Adventist Health White Memorial

DOC Combined Federal Campaign Rally

NIST Develops New Standards to Improve Metal-Detector Testing

SBIR funds internationally marketable quality audit instrument

Electrical Scanning Probe Microscopy

Infrastructure Materials Group

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

Venture Capitalists Share Their Insights With NIST

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

Medal Recognizes the Fire Protection Research Foundation Project

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

Operando Measurements of Electrochemical (Charge-transfer) Processes

Electrical Characterization of Nanoscale Electron Devices

Metrology for Printing and Graphic Arts Substrates

Resources

Electronic and Chemical Properties of Systems for Advancing Solid State Quantum-based Devices

Events & Presentations

NIST Cybersecurity for IoT Program Blogs

IoT Cybersecurity-Related Programs & Initiatives

ACMD Seminar: Two Applications of PDE Constrained Optimization

NICE Webinar: Cybersecurity Career Opportunities with the Federal Government

NIST Food Safety Program