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Interagency Report Advocates Support for International Cybersecurity Standardization

August 11, 2015

A new draft report by an interagency working group lays out objectives and recommendations for enhancing the U.S. government's coordination and participation in...

Four images showing circular grating for extracting single photons from a quantum dot

NIST Method for Spotting Quantum Dots Could Help Make High-Performance Nanophotonic Devices

August 10, 2015

Life may be as unpredictable as a box of chocolates, but ideally, you always know what you're going to get from a quantum dot. A quantum dot should produce one...

ASTM International Committee F45 on Driverless Automatic Industrial Vehicles

Mon, Aug 24 - Tue, Aug 25 2015

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

U.S. Departments of Justice and Commerce Name Six Experts as New Members of National Commission on Forensic Science

August 6, 2015

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced six...

Fueling High-Tech Growth through Minority Businesses

August 5, 2015

MBDA Contact: Velicia D. Woods, 202-482-0491 The U.S. Department of Commerce has established a new partnership between the Minority Business Development Agency...

NIST Releases SHA-3 Cryptographic Hash Standard

August 5, 2015

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the final version of its " Secure Hash Algorithm-3" standard, a next-generation tool for...

New Shellfish Reference Material Will Help Monitor Oceans' Radioactive Contamination

August 4, 2015

A new reference material that will help laboratories accurately measure radioactive contamination in seawater is now available from the National Institute of...

2015 Cybersecurity Innovation Forum

Wed, Sep 9 - Fri, Sep 11 2015

The 2015 Cybersecurity Innovation Forum is a three-day event hosted by the National Institute of Standards and

Nonprofit for Veterans Uses Baldrige Framework in New Case Study

July 29, 2015

Depicting how an innovative government organization might use the Baldrige Excellence Framework: A Systems Approach to Improving Your Organization's Performance...

CNST Releases the Spring/Summer 2015 Edition of the CNST News

July 28, 2015

The NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) is pleased to announce the release of the...

Not Schrödinger's Cat: NIST PET Phantoms Bring New Accuracy to Medical Scans

July 28, 2015

Teaming with a medical equipment company, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the first calibration...

NIST to Host First App Challenge to Improve Data Access

July 27, 2015

Researchers looking for information on the properties of methane at high temperatures or the isotopic composition of an element know they can rely on standard...

NIST Hosts September Meeting on Protecting Health Info Through HIPAA Security

July 27, 2015

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is hosting " Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security-2015,"...

NIST Transactive Energy Modeling and Simulation Challenge for the Smart Grid (TE) Kick-Off

Thu, Sep 10 - Fri, Sep 11 2015

On September 10-11, NIST in collaboration with federal partners and industry hosted the NIST Transactive Energy Modeling

People, Process, and Plentiful Passion

April/May 2015 Every year, I return from the Baldrige Program's Quest for Excellence® conference energized and full of pride in the success...

Comments Requested on Draft Guide for Keeping Medical Information Secure on Mobile Devices

July 23, 2015

Gaithersburg, MD — The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a draft for public comment of the first guide in a new series of...

Baldrige Helps Health Care Organizations Provide Superior Patient Experience

July 23, 2015

A newly released study comparing 34 U.S. health care organizations that received the Baldrige National Quality Award with their 153 geographically closest...

NIST Office of Advanced Manufacturing (OAM)

The office serves as the headquarters for the interagency Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office to coordinate Manufacturing USA, a network of manufacturing innovation institutes across the country that brings together industry, academia, and the public sector to advance American

Fire Fighting Research & Practice: From the Lab to the Street

Tue, Aug 25 2015

On August 25, firefighters, company officers, and fire chiefs will have the opportunity to learn about Fire Fighting

Best Practices in Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management

Thu, Oct 1 - Fri, Oct 2 2015

On October 1-2, 2015, NIST will host a workshop to share information on Best Practices in Cyber Supply Chain Risk

Silicon-based single electron current standards

We are working to fabricate and perform low-temperature measurements of CMOS-compatible single electron devices in silicon which could be used as a standard of

Si-Based Single Spin/Single Photon Measurement, Coherence and Manipulation

We are characterizing Si-based single-electron quantum dots at low temperatures (down to 10 mK) to explore the possibility of quantum coherent manipulation in

The Incredible Shrinking ESR Machine

July 14, 2015

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have come up with a way to shrink a research instrument generally associated with large...

WG5 Data Processing and Integration

ISO/TC 276/WG 5 “Data processing and integration” aims to develop ISO deliverables for traceable, searchable, and interoperable data together with integrated

White House Fact Sheet: Administration Cybersecurity Efforts 2015

July 9, 2015

The White House fact sheet on cybersecurity highlights five NIST efforts to improve the nation's cybersecurity: The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence...

White House Fact Sheet: Convening Manufacturing Leaders to Strengthen the Innovative Capabilities of the U.S. Supply Chain, including Small Manufacturers