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Designation Requirements for Vietnam

Phase I: Testing Laboratories The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), became the telecommunications regulatory authority of Vietnam...

Documentary Standards: Radiation Detection Documentary Standards Program

NIST is a key player in the development of ANSI/IEEE, IEC and Technical Capability standards for the detection of illicit trafficking of radioactive materials

Environmental: Natural Matrix Certified Reference Materials (CRM) Based on International Interlaboratory Comparisons

Reliable and accurate measurements of radioactivity in natural matrices are critical to key aspects of environmental research, including climate change, air

Designation Requirements for the Republic of Korea

Introduction The governments of the United States and the Republic of Korea signed binding exchange letters to implement Phase I of the Asia...

Security: Nuclear Forensics Reference Material (RM) Program

The Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office CWMD, within U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is mandated to enhance the U.S. Government's

Designation Requirements Chinese Taipei: National Communications Commission (NCC)

Introduction Through the American Institute of Taiwan (AIT) and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO), the US and...

Designation Requirements for Chinese Taipei: Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI)

Introduction Through the American Institute of Taiwan (AIT) and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO), the US and...

Requirements for NIST Designation of U.S. Conformity Assessment Bodies

NIST, through the Telecom MRA program office ( mra [at] nist.gov (mra[at]nist[dot]gov)), designates qualified U.S accredited conformity assessment bodies (CABs) to...

Magnetic Properties of Co/Ni Multilayers and their use in STT-RAM

Fri, Apr 28 2017, 10:30 - 11:30am EDT

The growing need to store digital information has led to the surge of finding alternative storage devices to replace the

Katharine Blodgett Gebbie Symposium

Wed, May 17 - Thu, May 18 2017

A symposium is being organized in honor of our friend and colleague, Katharine Blodgett Gebbie (1932-2016), to take

5481: Designing and Implementing OJT for State W&M

Thu, Apr 20 2017

This webinar will enable State Weights and Measures staff to apply adult learning concepts and the analysis, design

Turning Back Time: Watching Rust Transform into Iron

April 4, 2017

Using a state-of-the-art microscopy technique, experimenters at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have witnessed a...

ACMD Seminar: Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization: Applications and Methods

Sven Leyffer Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Lab Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 15:30 - 16:30Building 222, Room...

Designation Requirements for Canada

Introduction The governments of the United States and Canada signed binding exchange letters to implement Phase I (for testing laboratories)...

Keeping Their Cool

Are you happy when it's hot or cold? Well, your vaccines have specific requirements to be happy. And if they're not happy, they just won't...

General Requirements for CAB Designation

The applicant conformity assessment body (CAB) must meet the following requirements: Location of the CAB The CAB must be located in the...

Iris Experts Group II (IEG-II) May 2017 Meeting

Date: Thursday, 25, May 201 Location: Lecture Room D, Administration Building, NIST Campus, Gaithersburg MD 20899 Registration: IEG-II...

Designation Requirements for Australia

Introduction The governments of the United States and Australia signed binding exchange letters to implement Phase I of the Asia Pacific...

Designation Requirements for Singapore

Phase I: Testing Laboratories The Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA formerly IDA) is the regulatory authority for...

The EMNIST Dataset

What is it? The EMNIST dataset is a set of handwritten character digits derived from the NIST Special Database 19 and converted to a 28x28...

Emerging Technologies in Healthcare

Joshua Franklin Received the ATARC Mobile Innovation Award

Joshua Franklin received the ATARC Mobile Innovation Award for his leadership and technical excellence in the mobile space on Tuesday, March 28, 2017, at the ATARC Federal Mobile Computing Summit.

Kevin Stine - 2017 Federal 100

Kevin Stine. Chief, Applied Cybersecurity Division received 2017 Federal 100 Award. Through Stine’s leadership, NIST has expanded its program to address the nation’s cybersecurity challenges and accelerate implementation of standards and best...

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Presents Four Organizations with Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

April 3, 2017

BALTIMORE—Noting that “this public-private partnership generates $1 billion per year in economic impact,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross presented four...

Standards: Enabler of Sustainability

Wed, May 17 - Thu, May 18 2017

AN ACADEMIC-INDUSTRY WORKSHOP Sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Michigan State University

Former Advisory Board Member: Chris Weiser

Resigned from the Board November 2020

NanoFab Tool: AnnealSys RTA

The AnnealSys model AS-Master is a single wafer rapid thermal process system supports anneal processing in the NanoFab cleanroom. This tools supports anneals

Graphene Lid Revitalizes Imaging Technique

March 31, 2017

By capping liquids with graphene, an ultrathin sheet of pure carbon, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their...

Federal Information Systems Security Educators’ Association (FISSEA) 30th Annual Meeting

Mon, Jun 19 2017

NIST/FISSEA will host a one day FISSEA Meeting on Monday, June 19, 2017. Sunny days are here again. There were many

MED 2017 Evaluation

The Multimedia Event Detection (MED) track is part of the TRECVID Evaluation. The 2017 evaluation will be the eighth MED evaluation which...

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