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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

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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...

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...

NIST Retires SHA-1 Cryptographic Algorithm

December 15, 2022

The venerable cryptographic hash function has vulnerabilities that make its further use inadvisable.

Research Updates – Gas Flow for Semiconductor Manufacturing

13 February, 2025 In our last post in March of 2023, we 1) described design details, 2) illustrated how mass flow is determined, 3)...

Reliable Flow for Chip Makers

December 13, 2022

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have begun an ambitious project to attack a vexing problem in the semiconductor...

2021-2022 Baldrige Excellence Framework

Proven Leadership and Management Practices for High Performance Purchase your copy today. This leadership and performance management...

NDNComm 2023

Thu, Mar 2 - Fri, Mar 3 2023

The Named Data Networking Community Meeting 2023 will be hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology

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A Nanofabulous Experience: Internship at NIST’s NanoFab Provides Vital Training for Engineers and Technicians Entering the Semiconductor Workforce

January 5, 2023

NanoFab internships are one of the many ways that NIST and the Department of Commerce are helping to ensure American