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Data for the Bioeconomy

NIST is working to develop a broad strategy to promote FAIR Guiding Principles for Scientific Data and maximize the usability and...

Assessing Standards Needs

NIST works with the broader stakeholder community to identify standards needed for biotechnology and biomanufacturing. NIST engages...

Network of NIST Consortia

NIST leads and participates in multiple consortia as a form of public–private partnership. NIST plans to launch additional consortia for...

Documentary Standards

NIST Role in Documentary Standards The National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act (NTAA) directs U.S. agencies to adopt voluntary...

Communicating Forensic Findings: Current Practices and Future Directions

Tue, Jun 25 - Wed, Jun 26 2024

NIST convened this workshop to examine how forensic findings are communicated in reports and testimony. The first day of

JQI Researchers Win 2023 UMD Quantum Invention of the Year Award

This year Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a research partnership between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland, researchers and their colleagues have won in the quantum category for a new method for...

Standards to Advance the Bioeconomy

Why are standards important? Standards enable comparison, ensure interoperability, support commerce for emerging technologies, and support...

Read more about Hydrogen Vehicle Fueling FAQs

Kathryn Beers Named Director of NIST’s Material Measurement Laboratory

May 6, 2024

Beers managed NIST’s Circular Economy Program, which supports the nation’s transition to an economy in which materials retain their value through repeated...

Paul Witherell was elected as an ASME Fellow

For outstanding achievements in mechanical engineering.

Amy Mensch Received The Early Career Award

For exemplary contributions in the engineering profession in 10 years or less since graduation, including research advancements, leadership contributions, academic achievements, and community involvement.

Department of Commerce Announces New Actions to Implement President Biden’s Executive Order on AI

April 29, 2024

Announcements include draft guidance documents, a draft plan for international standards, and a new measurement program opening for public comment.

Data-Driven Design for Product Recovery

US industry needs to recover critical materials to reduce its dependence on foreign suppliers and insulate supply chains from global disruptions. These

NIST Awarded Cyber Policy Award for CSF 2.0 Efforts

On April 24, 2024, NIST was awarded the 'Ecosystem Champion Award' at the inaugural edition of the Cyber Policy Awards in Washington, DC. This award recognizes an individual, small group, or organization whose efforts have led to broad structural and...

Technical Language Processing Meeting with image showing Artificial intelligence looking at smart city, connected with planet through global mobile internet on phone.

Technical Language Processing Community of Interest 2024 Meeting

Tue, Sep 24 - Wed, Sep 25 2024

Join Us for the 2024 TLP COI Meeting and Workshop The Technical Language Processing Community of Interest (TLP COI) in

Enabling and Using Traceability and Data Linking for Sustainable and Efficient Supply Chains

Traceability is becoming increasingly crucial in and across multiple sectors and is critical to identifying and connecting value chain data. For example

MBE & QIF Summit 2024

April 16, 2024

The MBE Summit has brought academia, government, and industry experts together for over 10 years to share the challenges, implementation issues, and lessons...

Human-Centered SI

Pursuant to September 29, 2026, Executive Order 14434: Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence . AI has been changed to SI except when referring to

2024 Award for Excellence in Research in Applied Mathematics

Congratulations to Justyna Zwolak, who has been selected by the Washington Academy of Sciences (WAS) to receive its 2024 Award for Excellence in Research in Applied Mathematics. The citation for the award reads “For outstanding contributions in the...

Jonathon Phillips elected AAAS Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Dr. P. Jonathon Phillips as an AAAS Fellow. Dr. Phillips was given this honor for his distinguished contributions to the field of computer vision and pattern recognition...

NanoFab Tool: Zeiss Gemini 560 Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope

The Zeiss Gemini 560 Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM) is a high resolution FE-SEM which provides nanoscale imaging from 100 mm diameter

Data Infrastructure for Critical Material Recovery

The Data Infrastructure for Critical Material Recovery project aims to strengthen critical materials recovery data infrastructure via the development of

Julie Borchers Distinguished Mentoring award

2024 Sustained Research Prize of the Neutron Scattering Society of America - Julie Borchers

For groundbreaking contributions to understanding the structure and behavior of magnetic nanostructures using neutron techniques, and for exceptional service to the scientific community. https://neutronscattering.org/2024/04/congratulation-to-the...

2024 Fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America - Michihiro Nagao

For seminal neutron scattering studies revealing new dynamic modes in soft membranes. https://neutronscattering.org/2024/04/congratulation-to-the-2024-prize-…

2024 Fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America - Yun Liu

For his substantial contributions to the understanding of concentrated colloidal solutions using neutron scattering and his significant efforts to educate the next generation of neutron scatterers. https://neutronscattering.org/2024/04/congratulation...