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Smart Grid Communications

The Smart Grid can be defined as an electric system that uses information, two-way, cyber-secure communication technologies, and computational intelligence in
NanoFab Sputter Tool

Upgrades to Sputter Tools

The Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology is upgrading the NanoFab’ s two Denton Vacuum sputtering systems: Sputter 1 and Sputter 2. Both tools will be
USGv6 Program

USGv6 Program

NIST is Working with other USG agencies and industry to develop and maintain the standards, test program, deployment guidance and test and measurement tools

Advanced DDoS Mitigation Techniques

NIST is working with DHS S&T and industry to research and develop novel approaches to DDoS detection and mitigation, techniques to test and measure the
Software Defined and Virtual Networks

Software Defined Virtual Networks

NIST is working to develop test and measurement techniques to advance the state of the art in network virtualization, network service function chaining
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Robust Inter-Domain Routing

We live in a network-centric society that increasingly relies on the Internet’s routing infrastructure to facilitate human communication, connect users to
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High Assurance Domains

NIST is working with the Internet industry to design, standardize and foster deployment of technologies to improve the security and robustness of enterprise

Baldrige Organizational Profile

The Organizational Profile ( Baldrige Excellence Framework® preface) is a snapshot of your organization, the key influences on how it...

Facility for Adsorbent Characterization and Testing

The NIST Facility for Adsorbent Characterization and Testing (FACT) is a state-of-the-art laboratory recently commissioned with support from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to address the challenges inherent to measuring gas and vapor sorption

A Message from the MML Director

" A Message from the MML Director" appears in each edition of Material Matters, the quarterly magazine of NIST's Material Measurement Lab. This letter from

TGDC Meeting - September 15-16, 2016

Thu, Sep 15 - Fri, Sep 16 2016
The Technical Guidelines Development Committee, an advisory committee to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC)
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Latent Print AFIS Interoperability

Fingerprint records in one jurisdiction cannot always be compared to latent fingerprints left at the scene of a crime in another jurisdictions because their
This image shows 3-dimensional topographic surface maps of the breech face and firing pin impressions left in the primer at the base of the cartridge case.

NIST Ballistics Toolmark Database

The NIST Ballistics Toolmark Research Database is an open-access research database of bullet and cartridge case toolmark data. This database will: foster the
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