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Gaithersburg

Information Technology Security Day, Gaithersburg

Tue, Apr 14 2015

The NIST Information Technology Security Day is hosted annually as a means to heighten DOC and NIST user awareness of

Multi-Laboratory Study Sizes Up Nanoparticle Sizing

August 11, 2009

As a result of a major inter-laboratory study, the standards body ASTM International has been able to update its guidelines for a commonly used technique for

Novel Temperature Calibration Improves NIST Microhotplate Technology

August 11, 2009

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new calibration technique that will improve the reliability and

Optical scattering from surfaces

We study how material properties, surface topography, and contaminants affect the distribution of light scattered from surfaces. Our aim is to support industry

NIST Selects New Chief of National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program

June 10, 2003

Warren Merkel, a laboratory-testing and accreditation authority with public and private-sector experience, has been chosen to lead the National Voluntary

Debasis Basak and Michael Kennedy set up a new NIST instrument

NIST Puts New Testing Device to Work on Recovered WTC Steel Shows How Steel Responds to High Stress, High Temperature

June 25, 2003

A new instrument at the National Institute of Standards and Technology that operates like an air-powered battering ram has been pressed into service to study

Optical grating scatterometry

This program aims to develop standards, methods, and modeling for assessing the periodic structures using optical reflectance and transmittance measurements.

Spectrum of Th-Ar Hollow Cathode Lamps, Version History

Example of how to reference this online database: (Replace year, month day with database access date.) G. Nave, C.J. Sansonetti, F. Kerber...

Memorandum of Understanding Between The National Institute of Standards and Technology and The University of Maryland, College Park, MD for Cooperative Research

July 16, 2003

This Memorandum of Understanding, effective upon the date of execution by the last party to sign ("Effective Date"), is entered into by and between the

NIST, University of Maryland Agree to Broadly Expand Collaborations

July 16, 2003

Arden L. Bement, director of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, and C.D. Mote, president of the University of Maryland

Commerce's NIST Receives Valuable Chemical Data from Dow

July 31, 2003

As part of an effort to improve the quality of chemical information available to U.S. researchers, manufacturers, students and others, Dow Chemical Co. has

2003 Baldrige Performance Excellence Criteria Challenge CEOs to Be 'Chief Ethical Officers'

January 13, 2003

Responsibility for corporate stewardship and ethical business practices starts at the top with an organization's chief executive and governing body, says the

Satellite Measures Sun's True Power

January 27, 2003

Scientists expect to gain important information about the sun's effect on the Earth's atmosphere and climate from sophisticated instruments—all calibrated by

NIST: Both Fingerprints, Facial Recognition Needed to Protect U.S. Borders

February 11, 2003

A dual approach that employs both fingerprint and facial recognition technology is the best option for a biometric system that would make the nation's borders

Six Federal Agencies to Help Open the 'GATE' to Enhanced Manufacturing R&D

March 5, 2003

Six federal agencies involved in manufacturing research and development (R&D) have launched a major effort to improve the exchange of information about their

Ozone Standard Reference Photometer

DESCRIPTION The Standard Reference Photometer (SRP) Program began in the early 1980s as collaboration between NIST and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Commerce's NIST Reports Significant Advances Made in Facial Recognition Technology

March 13, 2003

Computers have become much more adept at "recognizing" human faces during the past two years, states a report released today by the Commerce Department's

Public Safety Studies on Evacuation of World Trade Center to be Announced at April 8 Community Forum

March 24, 2003

Scientific investigators from Columbia University, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The NIST Traceable Reference Material (NTRM) Program for Gas Standards

An NTRM (CM) (NIST Traceable Reference Material) is a reference material produced by a commercial supplier with a well-defined traceability...

Field within and around a 60 nm radius gold nanoring

Better Chemistry Through Nanorings

April 12, 2004

Gold rings suddenly have new cachet, and it has nothing to do with the price of gold or trends in marriage. Moreover, in this case, smaller rings are better

Memory with a Twist: NIST Develops a Flexible Memristor

June 2, 2009

Electronic memory chips may soon gain the ability to bend and twist as a result of work by engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST

Commerce's NIST Announces 44 New Advanced Technology Program Awards

September 10, 2003

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced 44 new awards from its Advanced Technology Program (ATP)

Agreements to Facilitate NIST WTC Investigation

October 31, 2003

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced that it has reached an agreement with the City of New York (NYC)

NIST Calls for Comments on Draft of Federal Computer Security Controls Guidelines

November 3, 2003

Computer scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today released an initial public draft of NIST Special

Methods and Applications in Ab Initio Thermochemistry

Karl K. Irikura Research Opportunity Number 50.63.21.B4792 For predicting thermochemistry of small main-group molecules, quantum chemistry...

Stanley Named to Head NIST's Advanced Technology Program

September 2, 2003

Marc G. Stanley has been selected to lead the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology

Solid-state lighting metrology

With the rise of new, energy-efficient solid-state lighting (SSL) systems has come the need for new performance metrics and measurement methods to address their

Furlani Named NIST CIO

September 2, 2003

Cita Furlani has been named chief information officer (CIO) for the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) by NIST Director

CODATA values of the fundamental physical constants

Every four years, the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) issues recommended values of the fundamental physical constants. The values are

NIST Status Update on World Trade Center 7 Investigation

June 29, 2007

A team of scientists and engineers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that is investigating the collapse of New

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