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Ordering Policies and Pricing

Sales and Customer Service Terms and Conditions Pricing Policy Payment Policy - If prepayment for SRM purchases presents a hardship to your...

In Search of (Workforce Performance) Excellence

Winter 2016 Even before the landmark publication of In Search of Excellence in 1982, bosses realized that operational excellence gets...

Chile Quake at Epicenter of Expanding Disaster and Failure Data Repository

April 26, 2016

Feb. 27, 2010, is a date that most Chileans will probably never forget. On that day, the sixth strongest earthquake in recorded history—packing a force greater

NIST's Million-Pound Weight Stack Restoration is Complete

April 25, 2016

It's official: NIST's 4.45-million newton (equivalent to one million pounds-force) deadweight machine – the largest in the world – is back in one piece after a

Grant Summary - 2015

Recipient Title Award Amount AZ Board of Regents /Arizona State University Testbed for Research and Development of Timing in Cyber-Physical...

Peer Network of Executives Ends Fellowship with Leadership and its Challenges Addressed

April 25, 2016

The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is proud to announce the completion of the year-long Baldrige Executive Fellows Program by 15 senior leaders

Head to Head: Photonic Pressure Sensors vs. Mercury-Based Standard

April 21, 2016

When a team of researchers at NIST's Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) first tested a new kind of pressure sensor two years ago, initial results showed it

Draining 5-Gallon Test Measures and Provers

Wed, Apr 20 2016

This 1 hour webinar will reinforce the concepts of properly draining 5-gallon test measures and provers. These concepts

Contact Information

National Institute of Standards and Technology ATTN: NSRL Project 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8970 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8970 USA E-mail: nsrl...

Technical Information

Approximate Matching DFXML Schema Presentations Technical Papers

NSRL Subprojects

Diskprints Unique File Corpus Voting

Standards Resources

Access NIST resources to find useful publications, reports, links and other educational materials on standards. Other Standardization Links...

What We Do

Conformity Assessment Standards expedite trade across borders only when agreed-upon standards are followed consistently. NIST fosters...

NIST Could Help Keep Sequestered Carbon From Blowin' in the Wind

April 20, 2016

Capturing carbon dioxide gas and storing it underground is a promising strategy for reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Scientists at the National

RDS Query Tools

There is a project called NSRLquery developed by Rob Hansen of RedJack Security LLC, which has two subprojects: nsrlsvr, which provides a...

About the NSRL

The National Software Reference Library (NSRL) project is supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, federal, state, and local...

Library Contents

The National Software Reference Library collects the original media for off-the-shelf software. This information is processed to obtain...

National Software Reference Library (NSRL)

Welcome to the National Software Reference Library (NSRL) Project Web Site. This project is supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland...

NSRL Introduction

This page provides a general overview of the NSRL: what it is; what it's for; and how it's used. If you're new to the NSRL, this is a good...

AVS Mid-Atlantic Chapter DC Regional Meeting

Thu, May 26 2016

Equipment Exhibit - vacuum hardware and instruments. Poster Session (cash prizes for the best student posters!) open to

False-color scanning electron micrograph of a nanophotonic frequency converter

New Nanodevice Shifts Light's Color at Single-Photon Level

April 18, 2016

Converting a single photon from one color, or frequency, to another is an essential tool in quantum communication, which harnesses the subtle correlations

Benefits of the Baldrige Framework in U.S. Health Care: A Summary of Recent News

April 18, 2016

Benefits of using the Baldrige Excellence Framework in U.S. health care organizations are well established. Recent news stories and other publications and media

Nonlinear Optics in High-Q Silicon and Silicon Carbide Microcavities

Fri, Apr 15 2016

Modern technologies allow us to fabricate optical microcavities that confine light tightly at resonant frequencies at

IREX IX

2019-09-17: Tabulated results from the first public report are being re-released with decision thresholds included. 2019-06-05: A follow-up...

Accreditation Programs

NVLAP establishes Laboratory Accreditation Programs (LAPs) in response to legislative or administrative actions, or to requests from private...

Novel Optical Functionalities Via Non-Hermitian Engineering

Wed, May 11 2016

In this talk I will show how the notion of non-Hermitian engineering can be utilized to construct novel photonic

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science

Strengthening the nation's use of forensic science by facilitating the development of technically sound standards and guidelines and encouraging their use throughout the forensic science community.

Iris Experts Group - II Homepage

A forum for the discussion of technical questions of interest to iris recognition developers, USG agencies and their staff, and other parties that are advancing

Quantitative Flow Cytometry Measurements

Flow cytometry is a widely used technique for single-cell and particle analysis. For flow cytometry to be used in a clinical, industrial, or research setting

NICE

The mission of NICE is to energize, promote, and coordinate a robust community working together to advance an integrated ecosystem of cybersecurity education, training, and workforce development.

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