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Gaithersburg

Office Staff

Members of the Biomolecular Measurement Division Office Dr. Rebecca Zangmeister, Acting Division Chief Jennifer Blair, Acting Division...

Thinking about Performance Measurement

March 2013 I grew up in New York. There were several questions we used to routinely ask each other: "How ya doin?", "How you been doin?",...

Iris Device Qualification Test (IDQT)

September 23, 2013 - Disposition of comments We are grateful for the comments received on the initial draft of the IDQT specification. These...

Digital PCR

Digital PCR (dPCR) is a method used to quantify nucleic acids (DNA, RNA, cDNA). At NIST we are using microfluidic and emulsion-based dPCR platforms for

EHR Usability & Patient Safety Roundtable

Fri, Apr 19 2013

Background In its recent report "Health IT and Patient Safety," the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National

Second Cybersecurity Infrastructure Framework Workshop Gathers May 29-31, 2013

April 25, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is holding the second of four planned workshops to develop a voluntary framework to reduce...

NIST Announces Plan to Sponsor First Cybersecurity FFRDC

April 22, 2013

To help the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) address industry's needs most efficiently, the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Handbook 130 Packaging and Labeling (5 day) - Canceled

Mon, Oct 21 - Fri, Oct 25 2013

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Office of Weights and Measures will hold a seminar for State

In Natural Gas Pipelines, NIST Goes with the Flow

April 19, 2013

On an ordinary day, the United States consumes about 70 billion cubic feet of natural gas – enough to fill a space a mile long, a mile wide, and half a mile...

Dehmer to Head NIST Physical Measurement Lab

April 19, 2013

Dr. Joseph L. Dehmer, a 40-year veteran of federal science research and administration, has been named Director of the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) of...

Surface Texture and Forensic Topography

This project provides methods, standards, and services for characterizing surface texture and microform in manufacturing, forensics, and science. We seek to

SI Length and Traceability

To enable our highest accuracy calibrations and NIST advanced research efforts, we maintain and develop methods to provide traceability to the meter via laser

Dimensional Measurement Services

The Dimensional Measurement Services (DMS) project delivers unique high-accuracy length based calibrations that are essential to global trade, support basic

Advanced Dimensional Measurement Systems

The Advanced Dimensional Measurement Systems (ADMS) project provides the measurement science and infrastructure needed by industry to adopt new dimensional

Landmark NIST Study Evaluates Effectiveness of Crew Sizes in High-Rise Fires

April 17, 2013

When responding to fires in high-rise buildings, firefighting crews of five or six members—instead of three or four—are significantly faster in putting out...

State Laboratory Annual Submission Process

Thu, Oct 24 2013

For State Laboratory weights and measures staff to review annual submission requirements for laboratory Recognition

Prototype Generators Emit Much Less Carbon Monoxide, NIST Finds

April 17, 2013

Portable electric generators retrofitted with off-the-shelf hardware by the University of Alabama (UA) emitted significantly lower levels of carbon monoxide (CO...

NIST to Launch New Center to Support Nebraska Manufacturers

April 17, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is soliciting proposals to establish a new Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) center...

Fluorescence Technique Measures Photoacid Distribution in Photoresists with Nanoscale Resolution

April 17, 2013

A team of researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the University of Maryland, and Korea University (Seoul, Korea) has measured...

Webcast Planned for June Workshop on Lyme Disease Measurement

April 17, 2013

Getting Lyme disease may be easy—the tick-transmitted illness is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States—but accurately identifying it during...

Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Workshop Video Available On Demand

April 17, 2013

The video of the April 3, 2013, Cybersecurity Framework Workshop convened by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is now available for...

May Conference to Discuss Safeguarding Health Information Through HIPAA Security

April 17, 2013

The sixth annual "Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security" conference will meet on May 21 and 22, 2013, at the Ronald Reagan...

Contract Review

Thu, Aug 8 2013

This 2 hour webinar will introduce the fundamentals of contract review that are necessary to meet customer expectations

NIST to Host Symposium on 'Ontology Evaluation' May 2-3, 2013

April 17, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is hosting a symposium on how to develop and evaluate "ontologies"—formal, computer-readable...

MSI-COPC National Training Conference

Mon, Sep 23 - Wed, Sep 25 2013

This year's 2013 MSI-COPC National Training Conference was hosted by NIST, within the Department of Commerce.

Industry Partners Join the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence

April 15, 2013

ROCKVILLE, Md. — In recognition of the critical need to protect private-sector intellectual property and other valuable business data from a growing number of...

Internal Auditing Best Practices

Thu, Feb 20 2014

This 2 hour webinar will consider internal auditing techniques and best practices that are used by a metrology

Internal Auditing Best Practices

Thu, Nov 21 2013

This 2 hour webinar will consider internal auditing techniques and best practices that are used by a metrology

Document Control and Record Keeping

Thu, Aug 15 2013

This 2 hour webinar will introduce the fundamentals of Laboratory Management System Document Control and Record Keeping

Volume Metrology Seminar

Mon, Dec 9 - Fri, Dec 13 2013

The Volume Metrology Seminar is a one-week, "hands-on" seminar. It incorporates approximately 30 percent lectures and 70

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