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SP 330 - Appendix 4

Historical notes on the development of the International System of Units and its base units Part 1. The historical development of the...

Brighter Future for LEDs: NIST Introduces New Lamp Calibration Lab

September 3, 2019

Question: How many measurement scientists does it take to screw in an LED lightbulb? Answer: For researchers at the National Institute of Standards and...

Background Information and FAQs on Draft NISTIR 8259: Core Cybersecurity Feature Baseline for Securable IoT Devices: A Starting Point for IoT Device Manufacturers

During the public comment period for draft NISTIR 8228 , Considerations for Managing Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity and Privacy...

ACMD Seminar: Black-box Analysis

Teseo Schneider Courant Institute, New York University Monday, September 16, 2019, 3:00-4:00 PM Lecture Room C Gaithersburg Monday...

SP 330 - Appendix 2 & 3

Appendix 2. Practical realization of the definitions of some important units Appendix 2 is published in electronic form only, and is...

Public Comments - Requests Comments on Draft Plan for Federal Engagement in Developing Technical Standards and Related Tools

Received From Date Robert Soper, Defense Intelligence Agency 7/3/2019 Salim AbiEzzi, INdustry Standards Office (INSO), OCTO - VMware 7/3...

NIST Privacy Framework Webinar: Ready, Set, Comment on the Preliminary Draft

Tue, Sep 17 2019

View the recently released Preliminary Draft of the Privacy Framework Please sign up for the NIST Privacy Framework

5618: Conducting an Effective Management Review-CANCELED

This 2-hour webinar introduces the Laboratory Management Review process, an important tool to foster communication

5619: Internal Auditing Best Practices - CANCELED

Thu, Feb 25 2021

This 2 hour webinar will consider internal auditing techniques and best practices that are used by a metrology

5621: Calibration Certificate Evaluation

Thu, Jan 28 2021

This 2-hour webinar will introduce concepts necessary to successfully implement ISO/IEC 17025:2017 compliant calibration

Ellen Nadeau Among Winners of the 2019 Rising Star Awards

Winners will be profiled in more detail this fall, and honored in person at the Nov. 7 Government Innovation Awards dinner.

SP 330 - Appendix 1

Decisions of the CGPM and the CIPM This appendix lists those decisions of the CGPM and the CIPM that bear directly upon definitions of the...

June 2019 Minutes

VISITING COMMITTEE ON ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY (VCAT or Committee) MINUTES OF THE JUNE 4 TH and 5 th, 2019 MEETING GAITHERSBURG, MD...

NIST Awards $1,000,000 to the MEP Center in Oregon

August 28, 2019

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has made one (1) additional...

SP 330 - Section 5

5. Writing unit symbols and names, and expressing the values of quantities 5.1 The use of unit symbols and names General principles for the...

SP 330 - Section 4

As of August 16, 2023 the physics.nist.gov historic SI Units site has permanently retired. This page and complete Metric (SI) Program...

Branco Weiss Fellowship (Society in Science) - Christian Haffner

The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science is a unique postdoc program for scientists with a proven track record who are willing to engage in a dialogue on relevant social, cultural, political or economic issues across the frontiers of their...

SP 330 - Section 3

3. Decimal multiples and sub-multiples of SI units Decimal multiples and submultiples ranging from 10 24 to 10 −24 are provided for use with...

NanoFab Tool: Thermal Thin-Al Evaporator

The Denton “Bench Top Turbo” thermal evaporator is a single source evaporator equipped with substrate rotation, a thickness monitor, and automatic deposition

Lane Sander Honored by American Chemical Society

To recognize outstanding contributions to the field of chromatography. Learn more about Dr. Sander's research.

NanoFab Tool: Filmetrics F50 UV Mapping Reflectometer

The Filmetrics F50 is an automated thin-film thickness mapping system equipped with a motorized r-theta stage that moves automatically to selected measurement

Register Now: The 2019 NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference

August 26, 2019

Register Now We’re thrilled to announce that Early Bird Registration pricing is now open for the 2019 NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference. The...

SP 330 - Section 2

2. The International System of Units 2.1 Defining the unit of a quantity The value of a quantity is generally expressed as the product of a...

Twelve U.S. Organizations to Receive Site Visits for 2019 Baldrige Award

August 22, 2019

Twelve U.S. organizations have been selected to proceed to Site Visit Review, the final stage in the evaluation process for the 2019 Malcolm Baldrige National...

SP 330 - Section 1

1. Introduction 1.1 The SI and the defining constants This brochure presents information on the definition and use of the...

SP 330 - Preface to the 9th edition

The International System of Units, the SI, has been used around the world as the preferred system of units, the basic language for science...

SP 330 - Foreword

The International System of Units, universally abbreviated SI (from the French Le Système International d’Unités), is the modern metric...

NIST’s Steering Group for Equity in Career Advancement (SGECA) Receives OSA Award

The NIST Steering Group for Equity in Career Advancement (SGECA) was recognized by The OSA Foundation. The OSA Diversity and Inclusion Advocacy Recognition serves to acknowledge the outstanding dedication and accomplishments of OSA members, companies...

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Next Generation Attenuation (NGA) East Seminar

Thu, Oct 10 2019

Please join EERI and partners for a one-day seminar on the Next Generation Attenuation Relationships for Central &

MACE Consortium

Fri, Sep 20 2019

The Metrology of Additive Construction by Extrusion (MACE) consortium will meet to discuss progress toward advancing the

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