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SPS Interns Get the NIST Experience

September 17, 2015

It's not every day that undergraduate students contribute in a meaningful way to research at a national lab in the span of a few weeks. But that's what happened

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About CTL

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Communications Technology Laboratory (NIST CTL) was established in 2014 to unite the...

NCCoE Seeks Comments on Revised Software Asset Management Building Block

September 16, 2015

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at NIST has revised the draft white paper describing a "building block" that will help organizations

Temperature: Its Measurement and Control in Science and Industry, Volume 8, Proceedings of the 9th International Temperature Symposium

Mon, Mar 19 - Fri, Mar 23 2012

The International Temperature Symposium (ITS) on "Temperature: Its Measurement and Control in Science and Industry" is

NIST 'Global City Teams Challenge' Aims to Create Smart Cities

September 15, 2015

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and several partners are launching a new effort to bring together

3rd Atlas/NIST Workshop on Photovoltaic Materials Durability

Tue, Dec 8 - Wed, Dec 9 2015

Scope: Focus on durability issues of materials used in solar energy applications. In response to the concerns of

Global City Teams Challenge 2016 Kick-Off Conference

Thu, Nov 12 - Fri, Nov 13 2015

To encourage collaboration on smart city issues from disaster response to energy management to mass transit improvement

NIST Exhibits at the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) 2015

Thu, Oct 29 - Sat, Oct 31 2015

The 2015 SACNAS National Conference "Interdisciplinary Collaboration: The Role of Diversity in STEM Innovation" in

ASTM Committee F45 on Driverless Automatic Guided Industrial Vehicles

An updated website can be found at: https://www.nist.gov/el/intelligent-systems-division-73500/unmanned-gro…

Photo of damage to a road caused by a 2007 flood in Minnesota

Community Resilience Panel Meeting

Mon, Nov 9 2015

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks members for a new Community Resilience Panel, part of

NIST Physicists Show 'Molecules' Made of Light May Be Possible

September 8, 2015

It's not lightsaber time, not yet. But a team including theoretical physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has taken another

Theodore Sizer of Bell Labs Joins NIST Advisory Committee

September 8, 2015

Theodore (Tod) Sizer has joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's) Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT), the agency's

NIST Exhibits at the International Year of the Light Washington, D.C. 2015

Sat, Sep 12 2015

To promote the progress and promise of light research and education, leading U.S. science organizations will host two

Beamline 1: Degradation of EUV filters and mirrors

Beamline 1 separates a swath of light from the synchrotron into two parts. The first part is collected in Beamline 1a by a normal-incidence multilayer mirror

U.S. Commerce Department Gives Small Businesses $3.2 Million for Innovation Research

September 4, 2015

The U.S. Commerce Department today announced that 20 small businesses will receive $3.2 million in grants to spur American innovation and competiveness through