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NACMA 2010 Annual Workshop and Conference: Meet World Experts on GD&T, Dimensional Measurement Uncertainty, and Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) Accuracy

Wed, Aug 4 - Fri, Aug 6 2010

To contribute to the growth of expertise in coordinate measuring machine technology, improve measurement accuracy and

Message from President Bush to 2004 Baldrige Recipients

November 23, 2004

Congratulations to this year's recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The Baldrige Award celebrates the achievements of American workers...

Two Manufacturers, Business School, Hospital to Receive Presidential Award for Quality and Performance Excellence

November 23, 2004

President George W. Bush and Commerce Secretary Don Evans today announced four organizations as recipients of the 2004 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award...

Six Organizations to Receive 2005 Presidential Award for Quality and Performance Excellence

November 22, 2005

WASHINGTON, D.C.—President George W. Bush and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez today announced six organizations as recipients of the 2005 Malcolm Baldrige...

Message from President Bush to 2006 recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

November 17, 2006

Congratulations to the 2006 recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The American economy is robust and growing because of the hard work and...

Three to Receive Presidential Award for Excellence

November 21, 2006

WASHINGTON, D.C.—President George W. Bush and Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez today announced three organizations as recipients of the 2006 Malcolm...

2010 STEM Talent: A Symposium & Career Fair for Postdocs in the Capital Region

Thu, Jul 22 2010

A conference and career fair for current postdoctoral fellows working in Washington, D.C.-area federal labs and

FpVTE 2003 FAQ

To ask a question, please email us. All responses will be posted to this list: no individual responses will be sent. The newest Q&As are at...

Federal Computer Security Program Managers' Forum Annual Offsite

Tue, Jun 8 - Wed, Jun 9 2010

The Federal Computer Security Program Managers' Forum is a group comprised of information security professionals from

NIST Joins Task Force to Study Nexus Between Innovation and Privacy Policy

April 27, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has joined a Commerce-Department-wide Internet Policy Task Force to identify leading issues in the...

National Conference on Weights and Measures 95th Annual Meeting Agenda Released

April 27, 2010

The National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM) will hold their annual meeting in St. Paul, Minn., from July 11-15, 2010. The theme of this year's annual...

Major Residential Fire Study to be Issued April 28

April 27, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will issue the results of a multi-institutional landmark national study on the effects of firefighter...

Photomicrograph shows Mag-µBot, the entry from Carnegie-Mellon University in the NIST Mobile Microrobotics Challenge.

Teams Gearing Up for Two NIST Robotic Competitions in Alaska

April 27, 2010

The recruitment period is over. The competitors have been selected. Let the games begin! The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced...

USGv6 Stakeholders Meet to Discuss Testing Program and Updated Protocol

April 27, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is hosting a public meeting on May 20, 2010 at the NIST site in Gaithersburg, Md., to review a...

Computer simulations showing the mixing of water and isopropyl alcohol in a COMMAND microfluidic device.

NIST, Maryland Researchers COMMAND a Better Class of Liposomes

April 27, 2010

Pop a bubble while washing the dishes and you're likely to release a few drops of water trapped when the soapy sphere formed. A few years ago, researchers at...

Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security

Tue, May 11 - Wed, May 12 2010

The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforces the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of individually

moiré patterns created by overlaid sheets of graphene to determine how the lattices of the individual sheets were stacked in relation to one another and to find subtle strains in the regions of bulges or wrinkles in the sheets.

Seeing Moiré in Graphene

April 27, 2010

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated that atomic scale moiré...

New Study Helps Explain the Surprising Behavior of Tiny 'Artificial Muscles'

April 27, 2010

Using neutron beams and atomic-force microscopes, a team of university researchers working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may...

two researchers in front of CT scanner with box of polymer ellipsoids

To Improve Lung Cancer Diagnosis, Good Medicine Is a Polymer Pill

April 27, 2010

Doctors may soon be able to diagnose lung cancer more effectively thanks to research performed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

Graphic depicting how the ice fishing method determines the distance across a membrane nanopore.

Lollipops and Ice Fishing: Molecular Rulers Used to Probe Nanopores

April 27, 2010

Using a pair of exotic techniques including a molecular-scale version of ice fishing, a team of researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and...

Proprietary Fingerprint Template Evaluations (PFT) Overview

Proprietary Fingerprint Template evaluations assess the accuracy of end-stage fingerprint matchers. These are the computationally-expensive algorithms used in

Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation (Slapseg) Overview

NIST has conducted two separate slap fingerprint segmentation evaluations to assess the state of the art in fingerprint segmentation technology.

During a fire safety experiment, a firefighter ventilates the building to let smoke and heat out to improve conditions inside.

Landmark Residential Fire Study Shows How Crew Sizes and Arrival Times Influence Saving Lives and Property

April 28, 2010

WASHINGTON D.C.— A landmark study issued today by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows that the size of...

Integrating Sphere-based Weathering Device

In the artificial ultraviolet (UV) weathering of materials, a need exists for weathering devices that can uniformly illuminate test specimens with a high level

He-3 shortage: Directors' Statement

April 22, 2010

Neutron facility directors met in Grenoble on March 5, 2010 to discuss alternative technologies for neutron detectors. statement

NIST chemists Thomas Bruno and Beverly Smith analyze complex fuel mixtures with the new advanced distillation curve apparatus.

Still More Accurate After All These Years

May 25, 2006

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed an improved method for measuring basic properties of complex fuel...

New Reference Materials Support Industrial Zeolites

September 14, 2006

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued three new reference materials to support researchers studying the properties of...

2010 TIP Competition Focuses on Manufacturing Technologies

April 15, 2010

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced a new competition for high-risk, high-reward research...

Rob Dimeo Appointed NCNR Director

April 16, 2010

Announcement from Pat Gallagher, NIST Director, April 5, 2010 I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Rob Dimeo to the position of Director of the...

FISMA Project Manager Ron Ross Named to 2010 Federal 100 List

April 13, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Ron Ross has received the 2010 Federal 100 Award. Presented by Federal Computer Week, the award...

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