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Smart Connected Manufacturing Systems Group

Develops and deploys advances in measurement science, including standards, guidelines, and tools, that enable U.S. manufacturers to use disparate data and advanced communications technologies to build knowledge and make better decisions to improve the quality, reliability, interoperability, and

Life Cycle Engineering Group

Develops, advances, and deploys measurement science to engineer the life cycle performance of products and processes, with particular emphasis on their sustainability. Carries out mission-related measurement science research and services to advance life cycle engineering for green manufacturing and

Why (and How) Bayes' Rule Rules

Fri, Oct 21 2011
If you are not already thinking as a Bayesian, maybe you should be. Applied practically everywhere from DNA decoding to

Quantum Optics Group

Our group studies and develops techniques relying on quantum optics and quantum optics-based components for new measurement capability, improved metrological accuracy, and quantum information applications.

National Fire Research Laboratory

The National Fire Research Laboratory is a unique facility dedicated to understanding fire behavior and structural response to fire through experimental research

Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Group

The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fire Group develops, advances, and deploys measurement science to reduce risk of fire spread in communities.

Fluid Metrology Group

The FMG is committed to supporting U.S. industries by delivering SI-traceable measurements for fluid flow, air velocity, and liquid volume. We offer critical support to flow meter manufacturers and calibration laboratories, providing low uncertainty flow measurements and developing physical models

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Humidity

The NIST Thermodynamic Metrology Group maintains and develops national standards of humidity (in the range 1 nmol/mol to 0.6 mol/mol of water concentration)

Fundamental Thermodynamics Group

The Fundamental Thermodynamics Group realizes, maintains, and disseminates the national measurement standards for pressure, vacuum, and leaks. Additionally, the group provides vital research towards improving measurement methods and standards for temperature and pressure along with other related

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Traveling SIRCUS Tests Satellite Sensors

For NASA's Earth Observing System satellite fleet, sensor failure is not an option. The nation depends critically on the data from those satellites, orbiting

Mass Metrology Seminar

Mon, Feb 27 - Fri, Mar 9 2012
The Mass Metrology Seminar is a two-week, "hands-on" seminar. It incorporates approximately 30 percent lectures and 70

Advanced Electronics Group

The Group seeks to develop the critical metrologies that will be needed in the future to understand the fundamental physics and enable advanced manufacturing of nanoscale devices at the 3 nm node and beyond.

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