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Open Letter to the Baldrige Community

April 3, 2018

Dear Friend of Baldrige, First, I want to thank you, the Baldrige community, for everything you do to engage with, support, and promote the program and its...

Advanced Microscopy for Trace and Bulk Particle Characterization

Advanced microscopy and spectroscopy techniques are used in this project to study the chemical and physical properties of particles contained in complex

CHRNS Publications and Acknowledgements

CHRNS instrument publications CHRNS Very Small Angle Neutron Scattering (vSANS) CHRNS Multi-Axis Crystal Spectrometer (MACS) CHRNS High-Flux...

Enhancing Optical/Electron Phase Microscopy for Biological Applications

Mon, Jun 11 2018, 10:30 - 11:30am EDT

Optical phase contrast microscopy and cryo-electron microscopy are widely used in the study of cells and proteins

Automatic Error Detection Using Runtime Verification

Mon, Apr 9 2018, 2:30 - 3:30pm EDT

Runtime verification (RV) is a relatively new software analysis approach, introduced by Klaus Havelund (NASA JPL) and

ACMD Seminar: Why are crystal facets mathematically interesting? A continuum-scale story with a microscale touch

Professor Dionisios Margetis Department of Mathematics and Institute of Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College...

SBC Computer Security Library

Publications NISTIR 7621 Revision 1, Small Business Information Security: The Fundamentals (11/2016) Framework for Improving Critical...

Baldrige Award Ceremony honoring the 2018 Recipients

Sun, Apr 7 2019

Closed captioning will be available at a later date. F acebook Live Event: Please visit the NIST Facebook page to view

Development of surface functionalized engineered nanomaterials for biological applications

The main research theme is the design and implementation of novel surface functionalities on engineered nanomaterials, by chemical approach, for their

Can This Invasive Exotic Pest Make Better Materials for Industry and Medicine?

May 4, 2018

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have combined derivatives of two surplus materials—wood pulp and dried-up pieces of an...

NICE Introduces New Apprenticeship Subgroup

March 28, 2018

NICE has launched the Apprenticeship Subgroup, a new public working group within the charter of the NICE Working Group. Girish Seshagiri and Jennifer Carlson...

5534: Mass Metrology Seminar

Mon, Oct 15 - Fri, Oct 26 2018

The Mass Metrology Seminar is a 2 week, "hands-on" seminar. It incorporates approximately 30 percent lectures and 70

News and Updates

July 2025: NIST Video Provides Technical Update on Hurricane Maria Investigation As NIST moves toward completion of its study of Hurricane...

Joshua Franklin Receives Federal 100 Award

Congratulations to Joshua Franklin for receiving the Federal 100 Award. Franklin literally wrote the book on mobile device security. He had a huge impact last year as one of the authors of NIST’s Mobile Threat Catalogue, and he was responsible for...

Donna Dodson Receives Federal 100 Award

Congratulations to Donna Dodson for receiving the Federal 100 Award . Dodson was a seasoned and steady influence on federal cybersecurity policy in 2017 as new leaders settled into the White House, the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense...

Naomi Lefkovitz Receives Federal 100 Award

Congratulations to Naomi Lefkovitz who received the Federal 100 award for promoting the development of trustworthy systems that protect individuals’ privacy and civil liberties. In 2017, she published a NIST Internal Report that introduces a systems...

NIST Releases Draft NIST Special Publication 800-160 Volume 2, Systems Security Engineering: Cyber Resiliency Considerations for the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure Systems

March 21, 2018

The United States continues to have complete dependence on information technology deployed in critical infrastructure systems and applications in both the...

Distinguished Visitor Talk at the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computer (Kno.e.sis)

Fri, Mar 2 2018

Ram D. Sriram, Chief of ITL’s Software and Systems Division, gave a Distinguished Visitor Talk entitled "Transforming

5551: Compressed Natural Gas / Retail Motor-Fuel Dispenser

Mon, Apr 16 - Thu, Apr 19 2018

This 4-day seminar will teach students how to conduct an official examination by properly applying all applicable NIST

Unconventional computing with memristive devices and arrays

Fri, Mar 23 2018, 1:00 - 2:00pm EDT

Memristive devices have become a promising candidate for unconventional computing. In this talk, I will present some of

Man with shovel stands on a hill of orange dirt surrounded by mountains.

'Hard Rock' Standard Reference Material Makes Identifying Chemicals in Mine Waste Easier

March 20, 2018

Across the American West’s Rocky and Sierra mountains, miners dug for gold, silver, zinc and lead to make their fortunes in the Gold Rush of the 19th and early...

Research Performance Progress Report Format and Instructions

The RPPR is used by recipients to submit progress reports to NIST on their grant awards and cooperative agreements. The RPPR instructions...

TESCAN MIRA3 for automated electron microscopy

A TESCAN MIRA3 Schottky field-emission scanning electron microscope with 4 30 mm 2 silicon x-ray drift detectors which has been automated for particle and

Tan and red aircraft carrier in grey colored segment of ocean off Cape Cod, MA, represents ship at sea while red and blue balloons along the coast indicate wireless users.

NIST Helps Facilitate First-Ever Spectrum Sharing Between Military and Commercial Wireless Users

March 22, 2018

For the past three years, an important broker has had its eyes on a prime piece of property that it wants to allocate to multiple tenants to ensure maximum use...

NSCI Seminar: What is the Role of Architecture and Software Researchers in Making Quantum Computing Practical?

Tue, May 8 2018

In the past 3-5 years, Quantum Computing (QC) has reached an interesting and important inflection point. For decades

A Standard for Standards

March 19, 2018

A new NIST standard ensures reliably accurate comparisons of measurements of the purity of tens of thousands of organic materials used throughout the world—in...

Sticking Together

January 16, 2018

NIST helps to ensure the strength of buildings, bridges, roadways, and other critical structures all over the world. The Material Measurement Lab at NIST makes...

Standards for Microbiome Measurements Workshop

Tue, Aug 9 2016

This workshop will seek input on defining reference materials, reference data and reference methods for human microbiome

Active Control of Scattering in Solar Cells and Smart Windows

Tue, Mar 27 2018, 10:30 - 11:30am EDT

In this talk, I will discuss experimental characterization, theoretical modeling, and device applications for light

NSCI Seminar: Bio-inspired Computing With Nanodevices

Fri, Apr 20 2018

Artificial neural networks are performing tasks, such as image recognition and classification, that were thought only

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