Piston gauges are used to calibrate customer piston gauges and pressure sensing devices. Piston gauges are calibrated via a direct comparison to another piston

The Residential Test Facility (RTF) is a unique laboratory at the National Institute of Standards (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD that serves as a testbed for enabling the design and operation of cost-effective residential building systems that deliver healthy and comfortable indoor environments.

The IRaP meetings started in 1994, in France, and since then have been organized in various countries on three

The last few bolts were tightened just weeks ago – by hand. Now fully restored, NIST's 4.45 meganewton (one million pounds-force) deadweight machine – the

Links to Legacy NSRL tools and data The MD5, sha1 and sha256 file signatures for the tool downloads are available here. Test data for SHA-1...

Link to DFXML Schema This is a link to the schema repository for Digital Forensics XML, version 1.1.1.

1st Commission Meeting - April 14, 2016 Location: Department of Commerce Research Library, HCHB Room 1894, from 1:00pm to 4:00pm EST...

Your gateway to help navigate the dynamic U.S. and international standards landscape NIST maintains this public-facing web portal to provide...

Access information related to standards incorporated in regulations Incorporation by reference (IBR) allows Federal agencies to comply with...

In 2012, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Forensic Science Research Program, with sponsorship

OMB Circular A-119 and the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act establish and clarify U.S. policy to increase Federal reliance...

Recent floods, tornadoes, and earthquakes remind us that natural, technological, and human-caused hazards take a high toll on communities. Costs in lives, livelihoods and quality of life can be reduced by better managing disaster risks. We can strengthen resilience and improve a community's ability

Elemental mercury – which is being phased out of commercial thermometers worldwide due to safety concerns – may also be replaced as a temperature reference

Applied and Computational Mathematics We provide leadership within NIST in the application of applied and computational mathematics to the...

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The Fundamentals of Metrology seminar will introduce the participant to the concepts of measurement systems, units

This 2 hour webinar will cover the essential elements of metrological traceability and the documentary evidence required

On June 15, NIST will host the NEHRP ICSSC RP-10 Review Meeting targeted for federal employees. The meeting's purpose is

Anyone who's ever covered a wall with sticky notes to clearly map all of the steps in a process knows how valuable that exercise can be. It can streamline

By manipulating the behavior of particles at a quantum level, scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI, a research partnership of NIST and the University

RDS Version 2025.12.1 - December 15, 2025 Note: The NSRL has completed the transition away from the RDS 2.XX text file format, and will only...

This 2 hour webinar on Software Verification and Validation will focus on the use of Microsoft Excel in calibration

NOTE: The NIST reference scaffolds have been discontinued due to lack of use. This page is an archive and is no longer current. Reference...

Summary When adherent cells are cultured in tissue culture plates, they adhere to a planar surface. In native tissue in vivo, cells often...

Scaffold Fabrication: Airbrushed Scaffolds & Combinatorial Methods Description: Polymeric nanofibers have shown great promise as a scaffold...

Description ASTM is a standards development organization that has a committee that focuses on regenerative medicine called " Committee F04...

Background: We have developed methods to assess quality of manufactured retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). The work was a collaboration with...

We have made much progress over the past decade toward harnessing the collective power of IT resources distributed