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Gaithersburg

IUSR - Major Project Milestones

September 18, 1997Steering Committee formed with NIST sponsorship in cooperation with the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human...

Top Ten Things You Should Know About the CIF

For product suppliers: Do: Explain the CIF to your development team. Make sure they understand how this is different from a formative...

What is the CIF?

The ANSI/INCITS-354 Common Industry Format (CIF) for Usability Test Reports is a standard method for reporting usability test findings. The...

Development of a First-Generation Community-Resilience Systems Model

This project aims to help communities become more resilient to tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and other natural disasters. It does so by developing

Standardization Coordination

Standards effectively expedite trade and stimulate economic growth when they are developed, maintained, and applied in accordance with...

Federal Policy on Standards

The US Government’s role in the development and use of standards and conformity assessment is guided by the National Technology Transfer and...

Publications

NIST Publications NIST has developed a variety of publications that support a deeper exploration of certain standardization and conformity...

Illustration shows a tornado with statistics about the Joplin tornado's deadliness and destructiveness.

Progress Toward National Resiliency: NIST Marks Joplin Tornado 5th Anniversary

May 19, 2016

Disaster struck Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, when the deadliest and costliest single tornado in U.S. history left a 35-kilometer (22-mile) long path of...

Right Size + Right Chemistry = Right Stuff for Plastics Manufacturing

May 19, 2016

Plastic manufacturing is an energy-intensive process. Now, research performed in part at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has revealed...

Image Group Fiscal Year 2015 Publication

B.J. Wing, " Mobile ID Device Best Practice Recommendation Version 2.0 Special Publication 500-280 v2" (NIST SP 500-280 v2) P.J. Grother, J...

NIST Forensic Scientist Helps Vietnamese Counterparts Identify Wartime Remains

May 18, 2016

In a Hanoi, Vietnam, hotel conference room, Mike Coble led a group of scientists through a series of calculations. Coble's presentation was heavy on the...

SSR 2016: Security Standardisation Research Image

3rd International Conference on Research in Security Standardisation

Mon, Dec 5 - Tue, Dec 6 2016

Over the last two decades a very wide range of standards have been developed covering a wide range of aspects of cyber

Standards and Conformity Assessment Training for Government Agencies

Providing no-cost training to the staff of federal, state, and local agencies who need to navigate or participate in standardization...

NIST Standards Coordination Office Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program

Enriching college curricula to raise awareness of the role of standards and standardization in science, technology, engineering, math, law...

NSRL and Voting System Software

NIST's National Software Reference Library collects software from various sources and incorporates file profiles computed from this software...

NSRL Unique File Corpus

The NSRL keeps one copy of each unique (as defined by a SHA-1 hash string) file encountered in processing. Each file is assigned an integer...

Diskprints

The NSRL RDS and its associated database contain file-based metadata about software derived from installation media. While this metadata is...

Non-RDS Hash Sets

On this page, we will make links available to data sets that use hashing or digest algorithms not contained in the RDS release. If there is...

ASTM International Committee F45 on Driverless Automatic Industrial Vehicles

Wed, Aug 17 - Thu, Aug 18 2016

To solicit F45 member input for the development of consensus standards within ASTM International Committee F45 on

Iris Experts Group II (IEG-II) June 2016 Meeting

Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 Location: Lecture Room A, Administration Building, NIST Campus, Gaithersburg MD 20899 Registration: IEG-II...

NIST Workshop on Software Measures and Metrics to Reduce Security Vulnerabilities

Tue, Jul 12 2016

The Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan seeks to fundamentally alter the dynamics of security

Past Events - Applied and Computational Mathematics Division

Workshop on Uncertainty Quantification in Materials Modeling, July 28-31, 2015, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Conference on...

ANSI-Accredited Group: ANSI R15.08, Subcommittee on Industrial Mobile Robot Safety

Thu, Jul 14 - Fri, Jul 15 2016

On July 14-15, NIST will host the ANSI-Accredited Group: ANSI R15.08, Subcommittee on Industrial Mobile Robot Safety

Memcomputing: a brain-inspired memory-enabled computing paradigm

Wed, May 11 2016

Which features make the brain such a powerful and energy-efficient computing machine? Can we reproduce them in the solid

Nanometer-Scale Thermal, Optical, and Mechanical Properties Using Atomic Force Microscopy: Transistors, Carbon Nanotubes, and Polymers

Wed, Jun 1 2016

This work presents atomic force microscope (AFM)-based measurements of nanometer-scale thermal, optical, and mechanical