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SRM 915c Calcium Carbonate Mass Fraction Standard

January 18, 2023

This standard reference material from NIST will help calibrate procedures for calcium determinations used in clinical analysis and for routine critical

ACMD Seminar: Spatial heterogeneity in the tumor microenvironment: The impact of immune cells

Navid Mohammad Mirzaei Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Friday...

ACMD Seminar: Isogeometric Analysis: Fundamentals, Challenges, and Current Research Thrusts

John Evans Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado - Boulder Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 1:00-2:00 PM MT...

Research and Projects

The projects and research section provides links for all our major projects in the following areas: VVSG TGDC Voting Systems Test Lab (VSTL)...

NIST Innovative Technology Showcase #2

Mon, Mar 13 2023, 3:00 - 4:30pm EDT

The NIST Technology Partnership Office (TPO) oversees the technology transfer processes that NIST researchers use to

TAC2022

Fri, Feb 3 2023

The Text Analysis Conference (TAC) is an annual community evaluation workshop for natural language processing tasks

2021-2022 Baldrige Excellence Framework (Health Care)

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2021-2022 Baldrige Excellence Framework (Education)

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Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) Program: Standards, Services, and Training

The NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) and the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) have developed an Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) Program

EVSE Fast Charging Network: Challenges for Calibration and Traceability

January 7, 2023

Updated: 03/31/23 Charging Your Electric Car: Ensuring Accuracy for EVSEs with Traceable Transfer Reference Meters Owners of electric vehicles are coming to

NIST Office of Weights and Measures – National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program Partnership: New Faces and New Opportunities

January 5, 2023

The NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) has long coordinated the accreditation of the State legal metrology laboratories through the OWM Recognition

Risk Evaluation and Mitigation

Quantitative risk analysis (QRA) is a systematic approach to quantify risks associated with the operation of an engineering process. QRA is an essential tool to

Performance Criteria Development

Experimental and analytical data are vital for advancing seismic design standards (e.g., ASCE 7, ASCE 41, AISC 341, ACI 318) and are essential for developing

Building-Level Seismic Performance Assessment

This project focuses on promoting enhanced seismic building performance. The main idea is to investigate the use of low-damage earthquake-resisting structural

Functional Recovery of Buildings and Lifelines

This project advances key areas of engineering knowledge and practice that are necessary for the development of a robust framework for functional recovery

New Year’s Eve 2023 Marked the Retirement of the U.S. Survey Foot

January 6, 2023

At the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2023, the U.S. survey foot was deemed obsolete and the international foot (i.e., 1 foot = 0.3048 meter exactly)

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2023-2024 Baldrige Excellence Framework Business/Nonprofit Now Available

January 9, 2023

The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program has released the 2023–2024 Baldrige Excellence Framework® (Business/Nonprofit) : Proven Leadership and Management

Circular Economy: Challenges

READ THE REPORT HERE The free market frequently works well for determining how resources should be allocated. However, there are barriers...

Circular Economy

An unsustainable economy (i.e., an economy that expends limited effort to preserve resources) is, typically, a result of decisions made by...

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Baldrige Excellence Framework | Baldrige Excellence Framework (Education) | Baldrige Excellence Framework (Health Care) Framework Overview...

Chip Circuit for Light Could Be Applied to Quantum Computations

January 3, 2023

The ability to transmit and manipulate the smallest unit of light, the photon, with minimal loss, plays a pivotal role in optical communications as well as

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The Los Angeles Megacity Carbon Project

The Los Angeles (LA) Megacity Carbon Project was established in 2013 as the second NIST urban test bed. The goal of this project is to use atmospheric

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The Indianapolis (INFLUX) Urban Test Bed

The Indianapolis urban testbed began in 2010 as the Indianapolis Flux Experiment, or INFLUX. INFLUX was designed to verify top-down methods for estimating

A yellow buoy with a red base floats in the sea under a blue sky.

Ocean Color System Gets a ‘Refresh,’ Allowing for More Precise and Accurate Measurements

January 3, 2023

NIST, NOAA and other partners have collaborated on an upgrade to an ocean-color sensor called the Marine Optical Buoy, or MOBY.

Use of Standards by U.S. Federal Agencies

NIST's Standards Incorporated by Reference (SIBR) database contains the voluntary consensus standards, government unique standards, private...

NIST Handbook 130 - 2022 Edition

Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal Metrology and Fuel Quality as adopted by the 106th National Conference on Weights and...

ACMD Seminar: CLAIRE: Scalable multi-GPU algorithms for diffeomorphic image registration in 3D

Andreas Mang Assistant Professor, Mathematics Dept., University of Houston Thursday, March 23, 2023, 1:00-2:00 PM MT (3:00-4:00 PM ET) A...

Use Cases and Requirements

Click on the linked document below to download a copy of the use case and requirements documents NOTE: This document listing is being served...

Low-Cost Sensor Platform

To support urban greenhouse gas (GHG) measurement capability, NIST is developing a low-cost sensor platform that can be deployed within existing measurement

Catch the Wave, SURF 2023, NIST OWM Undergraduate Researchers

Catch the Wave - NIST SURF for Career Success: Announcing 2023 Office of Weights and Measures Undergraduate Research Opportunities

December 14, 2022

Undergraduate students…are you looking for an extraordinary opportunity to propel your professional development and career forward? Well, there’s nothing quite

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