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2025 Material Flammability Research Highlights

June 30, 2025

Members of the Material Flammability Characterization Project recently presented or co-authored a series papers at the 16th International Conference and...

Measurement Science for Automated Vehicles

Automated vehicles rely on artificial intelligence to make driving decisions every fraction of a second, such as when to brake, merge, change lanes, or yield to

Workshop on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies

Thu, Apr 16 2026, 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) continue to attract significant interest given their potential to

Flexible Protein Simulations of Monoclonal Antibodies to Enable Biotherapeutic Development

All-atom modeling and dynamics refines design of protein therapeutics by incorporating dynamics in low and high concentration formulations. Molecular dynamics

NIST Releases NIR-SORT 2.0: Enhancing Model Validation for Textile Feedstock Identification

March 19, 2026

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released NIR-SORT 2.0, a major technical expansion of its spectroscopic fabric characterization...

Reliability of Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composite Systems for Resilient Infrastructure

Quantitative risk analysis (QRA) is a systematic approach to quantify risks associated with the operation of an engineering process. QRA is an essential tool to

Assessing Steel Corrosion Risk in Innovative Cement Concretes

Corrosion of steel embedded in concrete infrastructure components remains a persistent challenge, costing the US economy billions of USD annually. As shown in

Assuring the Long-Term Performance of Additively Constructed Structures

The use of 3D Concrete Printing (3DCP) is growing, along with the complexity of the structures that are being built with the technology. The availability of

Materials and Structures for Resilience Program

The cost of disasters, in terms of human life and economic loss, continues to rise as natural hazards impact growing populations with increasing severity

NIST Accelerates Circular Economy Standards with New Resource Registry

March 19, 2026

For companies selling recycled materials, knowing the science isn’t enough. Understanding the standards is just as critical. Take a recycler working with PVC...

Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity - an Open Forum

Thu, Apr 30 2026, 8:00am - 4:30pm EDT

Red Hat and the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Office of Space

NIST Submits Annual Report to Congress Summarizing FY 2025 Progress on National Construction Safety Team Investigations

March 19, 2026

The report includes an overview of work completed on the Champlain Towers South investigation.

Statutory Programs

Disaster and Failure Studies Program The primary focus of disaster and failure studies is on events that occur within the United States and...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Manufacturing Workshop

Wed, May 27 - Thu, May 28 2026

U.S. manufacturing expects to gain transformative productivity and resilience improvements through AI integration in

IEEE Reliability Society Selects Jeff Voas for Richard Kowalski Outstanding Service Award

Jeff was selected for this award for his exceptional and sustained efforts helping IEEE produce better reliability standards and publications through his volunteer leadership.

Jeff Voas Receives IEEE Reliability Society Lifetime Achievement Award

Jeff was selected for his pioneering work in software reliability, fault injection, testability, and software certification that fundamentally changed how the IEEE community approaches the assessment of complex systems.

NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) AI Program

On April 7, 2026, NIST released a concept note for an AI RMF Profile on Trustworthy AI in Critical Infrastructure. The profile will guide...

Microbial Flow Cytometry

Flow cytometry and sorting bring new measurement capabilities to the field of microbiology, and microbial samples present unique challenges to traditional flow

Thin Film RGTMs

The CHIPS Act project on Nanometer-Scale Planar Reference Materials is developing a series of Research Grade Test Materials (RGTMs) for distribution through the

Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security 2026

Wed, Sep 2 - Thu, Sep 3 2026

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the National Institute of Standards

NIST Helps Fingerprint Examiners With New Data and Software Release

March 23, 2026

The new tools are an annotated collection of 10,000 fingerprints and a software program that can sort fingerprints according to their quality.

CM4QC Outputs

Below is a list of outputs from the Computational Materials for Qualification and Certification (CM4QC) Steering Group. Report from National...

CM4QC Phase II

Phase I of Computational Materials for Qualification and Certification (CM4QC) culminated in the publishing of the CM4QC Strategy Document...

CM4QC History

Short History of Computational Materials for Qualification and Certification (CM4QC) The process that led to the formation of CM4QC began in...

OSAC Digital/Multimedia SAC Meetings

Tue, Apr 21 - Thu, Apr 23 2026

On April 21, 2026 - April 23, 2026, the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science, Digital

Michael Link Selected for ACS ES&T Air Inaugural Excellence in Review Awards

This award recognizes those scientists who perform peer review for ACS ES&T Air in their area of expertise to a consistently high standard, in a timely fashion, and on a frequent basis throughout the year.

NanoFab Tool: Raith EBPG 5200+ Electron Beam Lithography

The Raith EBPG 5200+ direct write electron beam lithography system allows users to quickly and directly pattern a variety of substrate materials with features

AMPHORA (Assured Microbial Preservation in Harsh Or Remote Areas)

NIST is the Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) partner for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – Biological Technologies Office (DARPA-BTO

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Harmonization of Allergen Detection and Quantification with NIST Reference Materials

Supporting food safety and labeling through reference materials, proteomic characterization, and method harmonization.

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Snapshots of NIST Science

Wed, Sep 16 2026, 5:30 - 7:00pm EDT

Have you ever … Filled your car’s tank with gasoline? Watched a true crime documentary with DNA evidence? Used a

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