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Gaithersburg

Don’t Miss NIST’s 6G Core Networks Workshop, September 12, 2023

August 1, 2023

On September 12, 2023, NIST will conduct its 6G Core Networks Workshop, online and onsite at the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in Rockville...

Attend NIST’s Virtual Workshop on Automated Vehicles, September 5-8, 2023

August 1, 2023

Sign up now for NIST’s free, virtual workshop on Standards and Performance Metrics for On-Road Automated Vehicles (AV), September 5-8, 2023. Registration and...

NIST Researchers Propose a Method for Automated Vehicle Communications

August 1, 2023

Automated vehicles (AV) will need updates on driving conditions. Past studies envision roadside infrastructure transmitting such updates via beams of...

NIST Leader Envisions Distributed Driving Intelligence Benefiting Automated Vehicles

August 1, 2023

Today, driving intelligence resides on automated vehicles (AV). However, NIST’s Transformational Networks and Services Group Leader, Tao Zhang, offered a vision...

NIST AV Research Lead Describes NIST’s Automated Vehicle Effort to Global Auto Alliance

August 1, 2023

In June 2023, NIST’s Automated Vehicle (AV) Research Lead, Ed Griffor, provided an overview of NIST’s AV Strategic and Emerging Research Initiatives to the...

NIST Researchers Report on High-speed Search and Retrieval Internet Capability at Workshops

August 1, 2023

NIST researchers recently presented on their highspeed networking software router, called Named Data Networking-Data Plane Development Kit (NDN-DPDK), at the...

NIST Researcher Provides Insights on Future Smart Sensors and Actuator Standards

August 1, 2023

NIST researcher Eugene Song addressed 2023 Sensor Converge, the North America’s largest electronics event for design engineers, on smart sensor and actuator...

NIST Leader Describes Cybersecurity Resources for Small Manufacturers in Manufacturing Extension Partnership Workshop

August 1, 2023

In a June 2023 presentation, NIST Networked Control Systems Group Leader, Keith Stouffer, described resources that could aid the Cybersecurity Workgroup...

NIST Conducts Workshop on Enhancing Industrial Wireless Systems Performance

August 1, 2023

In June 2023, NIST’s Industrial Wireless System Team, as part of the NIST-led Industrial Wireless Technical Interest Group, held an online workshop on...

NIST Researchers Use AI Framework to Assess Industrial Wireless Systems Performance

August 1, 2023

Wireless communications can enable Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT) systems that give industry greater flexibility in setting up and...

OMG Approves NIST-aided Complex Systems Modeling Upgrade, Getting Industry Acclaim

August 1, 2023

In a July 10, 2023 press release, the standards organization Object Management Group (OMG®) announced approval of the NIST-aided Systems Modeling Language...

NIST Releases Latest Software for Modeling Manufacturing Systems

August 1, 2023

NIST released its newest software version of SimPROCESD, or Simulated-Production Resource for Operations and Conditions Evaluation to Support Decision-Making...

Conceptual Art of Gas Molecules Adsorbed in a Zeolite Adsorbent

NIST Data Resources for Adsorption

NIST provides data resources related to adsorption of both gases and liquids on solid adsorbents through the NIST Data Resources for Adsorption Science and

ESCAPE

Evacuation and Sheltering Considerations - Assessment, Planning, and Execution The devastation of wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires has...

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CTL Featured at Federal Laboratory Consortium Showcase Webinar

August 22, 2023

NIST’s Melissa Midzor, David Wollman, Jim Booth, and Jordan O’Dell provide an overview of Communications Technology Laboratory programs at a Federal Laboratory...

Bayh-Dole Update Webinar is a Resounding Success

August 23, 2023

The field of technology transfer is vibrant and fast-moving, and the Bayh-Dole Act regulations shaping federal tech transfer respond and adapt to changing...

TREC/TRECVID/TAC 2023

Mon, Nov 13 - Fri, Nov 17 2023

Announcing the first hybrid collaboration for NIST leaders in Retrieval Technology. All are invited to attend the

group photo taken at NCWM 2023 Annual Meeting; Craig VanBuren, Don Onwiler, and Mahesh Albuquerque of NCWM, Laurie Locascio and Katrice Lippa of NIST, Gene Robertson of NCWM, David Sefcik

NIST OWM – NCWM: An Enduring Partnership

On August 1, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) and the National Conference on Weights and Measures ( NCWM ) signed a new

Groups of people sit or lie in a parking lot surrounded by low buildings as fires burn in the forest beyond.

NIST Issues New Guidance for Emergency Response During Wildfires

August 23, 2023

Lessons learned from the 2018 Camp Fire in California include strategies for protecting lives when there is not enough time to safely evacuate all residents.

Illustration shows a gloved hand holding a puzzle piece that fits into the center of a puzzle showing the letter Y.

Researchers Fully Sequence the Y Chromosome for the First Time

August 23, 2023

What was once the final frontier of the human genome — the Y chromosome — has just been mapped out in its entirety.

TMMC: Reference Adsorption Isotherms for N2 in Metal-organic Frameworks

Grand-canonical Transition-Matrix Monte Carlo (GC-TMMC) simulations [1, 5-10] of N 2 were performed at T = 300 K and 350 K in three metal...

Detangling Light-based Thermometers with Combs

August 29, 2023

Photonic thermometers, which measure temperature using light, have the potential to revolutionize temperature measurement by being faster, smaller, and more...

David Sefcik (center) accepting his award from NCWM Chair-elect Gene Robertson (at the podium), NCWM Chair Mahesh Albuquerque (left) and NIST Director Laurie Locascio (right).

2023 NCWM Outstanding Contributions Award - David Sefcik

David Sefcik of the NIST OWM received the 2023 NCWM Outstanding Contributions Award for his service as a co-organizer of the 2022 NCWM-NIST National Survey on 20 lb LPG (Propane) Cylinders. The study was conceived by and conducted in partnership with...

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Gaithersburg

Don’t Miss NIST’s 6G Core Networks Workshop, September 12, 2023

Attend NIST’s Virtual Workshop on Automated Vehicles, September 5-8, 2023

NIST Researchers Propose a Method for Automated Vehicle Communications

NIST Leader Envisions Distributed Driving Intelligence Benefiting Automated Vehicles

NIST AV Research Lead Describes NIST’s Automated Vehicle Effort to Global Auto Alliance

NIST Researchers Report on High-speed Search and Retrieval Internet Capability at Workshops

NIST Researcher Provides Insights on Future Smart Sensors and Actuator Standards

NIST Leader Describes Cybersecurity Resources for Small Manufacturers in Manufacturing Extension Partnership Workshop

NIST Conducts Workshop on Enhancing Industrial Wireless Systems Performance

NIST Researchers Use AI Framework to Assess Industrial Wireless Systems Performance

OMG Approves NIST-aided Complex Systems Modeling Upgrade, Getting Industry Acclaim

NIST Releases Latest Software for Modeling Manufacturing Systems

NIST Data Resources for Adsorption

ESCAPE

CTL Featured at Federal Laboratory Consortium Showcase Webinar

Bayh-Dole Update Webinar is a Resounding Success

TREC/TRECVID/TAC 2023

NIST OWM – NCWM: An Enduring Partnership

NIST Issues New Guidance for Emergency Response During Wildfires

Researchers Fully Sequence the Y Chromosome for the First Time

TMMC: Reference Adsorption Isotherms for N2 in Metal-organic Frameworks

Detangling Light-based Thermometers with Combs

2023 NCWM Outstanding Contributions Award - David Sefcik

NIST to Standardize Encryption Algorithms That Can Resist Attack by Quantum Computers

USNWG Field Reference Meters: Coriolis Mass Flow Meters

NIST Demonstrates a New ‘Primary Standard’ for Measuring Ultralow Pressures

CHIPS R&D Standards Summit

Metric Kitchen: Brownies