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TGDC Meeting - September 15-16, 2016 - Presentations

September 15, 2016 Opening Remarks NIST Overview - Willie May Agenda - Mary Brady Project Charter - Brian Hancock Status of Public Working...

New NIST Resources Help Organizations Protect Systems from Mobile Threats

September 14, 2016

IT security departments have used guidance from NIST and other sources to help them defend the vulnerable connections between mobile devices and enterprise...

Standards and Tools

We collaborate with key stakeholders to develop and disseminate NIST products that enable comparison, ensure interoperability, and support...

Core Capabilities

BBD advances biometrology and engineering biology by integrating state-of-the-art measurement capabilities with automation and ML/AI...

2009 APS Fellow - Yuri Ralchenko

For significant contributions to the relativistic theory of highly-charged ions and collisional-radiative modeling, and through creation of online codes and databases for the atomic physics community.

NIST research chemist Jeanita Pritchett extracts nicotine and tobacco-specific compounds from a candidate Standard Reference Material (SRM)

New NIST Reference Material Helps Assure Accurate Measurement of Constituents in Tobacco Products

September 12, 2016

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a reference material with certified amounts of nicotine and two carcinogens to help ensure...

2009 Washington Academy of Sciences Award - Dr. Joseph Reader

In order to recognize scientific work of merit and distinction, the Washington Academy of Sciences gives awards annually to scientists who work in the greater Washington D.C. area.

Joseph Reader, Yuri Ralchenko and Alexander Kramida

2015 French Award

The Judson C. French Award, first presented in 2000, is granted for significant improvement in products delivered directly to industry, including new or improved NIST calibration services, Standard Reference Materials, and Standard Reference...

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker Announces Manufacturing USA: New Brand for National Network for Manufacturing Innovation

September 12, 2016

CHICAGO — Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced that “Manufacturing USA” is the new brand name for the National Network for Manufacturing...

NIST Illuminates Transfer of Nanoscale Motion Through Microscale Machine

September 12, 2016

From the printing press to the jet engine, mechanical machines with moving parts have been a mainstay of technology for centuries. As U.S. industry develops...

The box cover for Asteroids for the Atari 7800 gaming system

Digital Forensics Rescues Retro Video Games and Software

September 12, 2016

Starting in the mid-1980s, a young man named Stephen Cabrinety filled his home with video games and software. He piled unopened boxes to the ceilings—everything...

Presentations from “The Role of Standards in Preventing & Mitigating Health IT Patient Safety Risks”, September 7, 2016

The Roles of Leadership and Culture in Health IT Safety at your OrganizationDavid Hunt, Medical Director, Health IT Adoption and Patient...

With New CRADA, NIST Ups Its Measurement R&D In Support of Precision Medicine Diagnostics

July 14, 2016

NIST efforts to support accurate diagnostic testing so that cancer treatments can be tailored to the tumor DNA and other characteristics particular to...

Microbial Genomic Measurements

Increasingly, high stakes decisions impacting public health and safety are being made using microbial genomic sequencing data. For example, whole genome

Opto-Analytical Spectroscopy, Imaging, and Sensing (OASIS)

Wed, Sep 7 2016

Light matter interaction can provide rich compositional information from various types of samples in a non-invasive

Measurement of Nanoscale Magnetization Using a Torsional Optomechanical Cavity

Fri, Sep 16 2016

Torque magnetometry is a sensitive and efficient tool for measuring the magnetic anisotropy of magnetic materials

5465: Caribbean Measurement Assurance Program (CaMAP)

Mon, Apr 24 - Thu, Apr 27 2017

This is an annual training session for metrologists from Caribbean Measurement Assurance Program (CaMAP). NIST Handbook

Precision X-ray Emission Line Measurements

The PBD is making new, state-of-the-art measurements of the wavelengths of select atomic X-ray emission lines. These measurements underpin all precision x-ray

Picture of PBD set up for wavelength measurement

Powder Diffraction SRMs

The work carried out under this project creates a wide variety of X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) used to calibrate and

The Parallel Beam Diffractometer (PBD) Laboratory

The Parallel Beam Diffractometer laboratory is a highly-controlled space (0.01 degree C stability) containing a set of absolutely calibrated...

Smart Manufacturing Systems (SMS) Test Bed

The Smart Manufacturing Systems (SMS) Test Bed is comprised of three major components: Computer-Aided Technologies (CAx) Lab Manufacturing Lab Data publication

5462: Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Liquid-Measuring Systems Training

Mon, Oct 3 - Fri, Oct 7 2016

This 4.5 day seminar will teach students how to properly inspect and test LPG metering systems; that is, perform an

Past Federal Agency Training Events

Setting Standards: A Simulation Exercise in Strategy and Cooperation in Standardization ProcessesJul 25, 2016 (Gaithersburg, MD )...

Smart Grid Framework

NIST Framework and Roadmap of Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 4.0 NIST invites your input on the newly released draft of its...

Enterprise Risk Management Requires a Systems Perspective

Summer 2016 Whatever we do personally, organizationally, or as a society, there is risk associated with it. If we take no risks, there will...

NIST Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program: Awardees

Awardees 2012-2025 FY 2025 Awardees Coming soon FY 2023 Awardees Colorado School of Mines Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Missouri...

Words MFG Day. Underneath: words "official endorser"

How the Baldrige Program Supports Manufacturing Day 2016

August 31, 2016

Helping to connect U.S. school children (the workforce of the future) with manufacturers, and providing manufacturers with a performance excellence framework...

NIST Exhibits at the 2016 Grace Hopper Women in Computing Conference

Wed, Oct 19 - Fri, Oct 21 2016

NIST will exhibit at the 2016 Grace Hopper Women in Computing Conference. Booth Number 2903 The Grace Hopper Celebration

World Standards Week 2016

September 16, 2016

World Standards Week is an ANSI-hosted annual event designed to inspire open dialogue about developments and challenges related to standardization and...

Directional Routing Protocols for Ad-hoc Networks

A directional routing approach for multi-hop ad-hoc networks, is presented which has been applied to two on-demand routing protocols: namely dynamic source

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