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Quality Is Virtual! Baldrige Program Offers Quest for Excellence Online

March 16, 2010

Don't worry if you can't make it to Washington, D.C., for the Quest for Excellence XXII conference on April 12-14, 2010. You can participate from your home or

Baldrige Program Funds Four State Efforts to Teach Performance Excellence

March 16, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Baldrige National Quality Program (BNQP) has announced that four state quality programs will receive

March Workshop at NIST to Focus on Preserving Our Digital Data

March 16, 2010

Experts on digital preservation are gathering at a workshop at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md., from March 29 to

NIST, Partners Develop Testing Infrastructure for Health IT Systems

March 16, 2010

Fully incorporating modern information technology into the healthcare system promises many benefits, including better quality care, less paperwork and fewer

Layered Graphene Sheets Could Solve Hydrogen Storage Issues

March 16, 2010

Graphene—carbon formed into sheets a single atom thick—now appears to be a promising base material for capturing hydrogen, according to recent research at the

Nanoparticle Assembly in Complex Fluids

Develop measurement methods that quantify the interdependent stability, transport, and redox properties of nanomaterials in biophysical multicomponent complex

CIFter

The CIFter Project was created by a project team of the Visualization and Usability Group* at The National Institute of Standards and...

Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation 2004 (slapseg04)

The Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation 2004 (SlapSeg04) is an assessment of the accuracy of algorithms used to segment slap...

Video Surveillance Technologies for Retail Security (VISITORS)

The U.S. Retail Industry experiences over $32B in losses per year (2008 statistics) due to retail theft and frauds. Organized crime accounts...

XML Technologies

For more information regarding this project, please visit: http://xw2k.nist.gov/xml/ The World Wide Web has grown to become the world's digital library, making

Results with Baldrige in Service

(links are to organization profiles) PricewaterhouseCoopers Public Sector Practice Among consulting firms serving the federal...

Role-Based Training for IT Security Is the Topic of March Educators' Conference

March 2, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association (FISSEA) are co-hosting FISSEA's

Comments Requested on Draft Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6

March 2, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting public comment on draft guidelines for network engineers and administrators for the

NIST Releases Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems

March 2, 2010

The final publication of the Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems: A Security Life Cycle Approach (NIST Special

First Test Labs for Next-Generation Internet Protocol (IPv6) Are Accredited

March 2, 2010

The first two laboratories have recently completed accreditation to provide testing services for the USGv6 Program. The USGv6 Program, developed at the National

NIST, NASA Launch Joint Effort to Develop New Climate Satellites

March 2, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have launched a joint effort to gather

Photo of NIST team conducting wireless communication tests in Denver

Call Forwarding: New NIST Procedure Could Speed Cell Phone Testing

March 2, 2010

By accurately re-creating the jumbled wireless signal environment of a city business district in a special indoor test facility, researchers at the National

Mouse Work: New Insights on a Fundamental DNA Repair Mechanism

March 2, 2010

Adding a new link to our understanding of the complex chain of chemistry that keeps living cells alive, a team of researchers from the University of Vermont

Computer Forensic Reference Data Sets

For more information, visit: http://www.cfreds.nist.gov/ NIST is developing Computer Forensic Reference Data Sets (CFReDS) for digital evidence. These reference

Computer Forensics Tool Testing (CFTT)

For more information, visit: http://www.cftt.nist.gov/ There is a critical need in the law enforcement community to ensure the reliability of computer forensic

SDO/EVE/ESP Calibration

NASA launched the Solar Dynamics Observatory ( SDO) satellite on 11 Feb 2010 on a mission to study the sun. The EUV Variability Experiment ( EVE) on SDO

NIST Radiation Thermometry Short Course

Mon, Oct 15 - Fri, Oct 19 2012

The NIST Radiation Short Course is offered every 2 years and covers the fundamentals of radiometric physics and

Calibrations: Neutron Source Strength

The neutron source calibration facility operated by NIST is a world-class calibration laboratory providing neutron source calibration services for radioisotopic

NIST Launches New Competition for Research Facility Construction Grants

February 25, 2010

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced a new competition for grants for the construction of new or

IMS Visualization

The fundamental measures (IMS) project is producing vast amounts of data. This project will visualize the three classes of computer models of networks - micro

NIST Grants Awards for Recovery Act Fellowship Programs

February 19, 2010

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that it is awarding a total of $19.5

NIST Spectroradiometry Short Course

Tue, Apr 7 - Fri, Apr 10 2020

NIST is closely monitoring guidance from Federal, State, and local health authorities on the outbreak of COVID-19. To

Bilateral Comparison of Spectral Responsivity in the Vacuum-Ultraviolet

To compare the calibration capabilities for the spectral responsivity in the vacuum-ultraviolet spectral region between 135 nm and 250 nm, PTB and NIST agreed

High Resolution Atomic Spectroscopy

Accurate measurements of atomic wavelengths, energy levels, oscillator strengths and isotope and hyperfine structure using diffraction grating spectrographs

Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT) Facility

The NIST EBIT Facility is used to investigate the science and applications of highly charged ions.

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