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Operations Research: Responding to National Needs

Dates: 1960 - 1980 NBS mathematicians answered many calls from government agencies, including DOD, IRS, DOT, FAA, and HUD, for help with...

NIST Supports Teleoperation Forum on Concepts and Standardization

December 1, 2021

On December 2, 2021, over 180 experts from around the world participated in the first 5G-Blueprint Forum on Teleoperation, organized by the 5G-Blueprint Project...

Diane Stephens Named Winner for the 2022 Women in Biometrics Award

Diane Stephens of the Information Access Division in NIST's Information Technology Laboratory has been named one of the 2022 Security Industry Association's Women in Biometrics. This award was presented May 24, 2022, at a special award ceremony...

A new “dictionary” for additive manufacturing data

ASTM just released a standard “dictionary” for defining, analyzing, and sharing additive manufacturing (AM) data. Existing AM data are stored in different...

U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC)

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2007 Award Recipient, Nonprofit Download Printable PDF Public Affairs Contact *At time of award For...

NIST Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Webcast Provides Lessons learned from Technology Use in Smart Community Initiatives

November 1, 2021

On October 13, 2021, the GCTC Utility SuperCluster conducted a NIST co-sponsored webcast in which a panel of experts addressed the lessons from technology use...

Boeing Airlift and Tanker Programs

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 1998 Award Recipient, Manufacturing Boeing Airlift and Tanker (A&T) Programs designs, develops, and...

NIST, University Researchers Introduce Framework for Composing IOT Capabilities

November 1, 2021

NIST researchers and collaborators recently published the paper, A Framework for the Composition of Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)...

NIST Role and Activities Relative to the Post Quantum Cryptography White House Memo

On May 4, 2022, the White House issued a National Security Memorandum on Promoting United States Leadership in Quantum Computing While...

Securing the DotGov: Examining Efforts to Strengthen Federal Network Cybersecurity

May 17, 2022

Chairwoman Clarke, Ranking Member Garbarino, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, I am Dr. Charles Romine, the Director of the Information Technology...

NIST's Pivotal Points of Interoperability Enable Smart City Standardization

November 1, 2021

A recent Propmodo article, Middleware Needs Standardization to Hold Smart Buildings Together, points out that sensor data in smart buildings and smart cities...

NIST Offers Guidelines for Securing Distributed Energy Resources and Proposes Research

November 1, 2021

In October 2021, NIST published Distributed Energy Resource Security: Potential Guidelines and Research Topics. This NIST Tech Note addresses an effort to...

Comments on the 1st Draft of AI Risk Management Framework

1 st Draft AI RMF Comments on the initial draft of the AI Risk Management Framework Comments Accenture ACM US Technology Policy Committee...

NIST Industrial Wireless Technical Interest Group (IWSTIG)

May 17, 2022

In May 2017, NIST formed a technical working group to develop best practices guidelines in selecting and deploying industrial wireless solutions within...

5G/6G Core Networks and Services

This program aims to advance networking and measurement sciences and promote consensus standards and best practices for the evolution from 5G to 6G, focusing on

NIST Helps SEPA Develop Electric Vehicle Charging Use Case to Identify Interoperability Needs

November 1, 2021

NIST's Cuong Nguyen led the Smart Electric Power Alliance's (SEPA) Interoperability Task Force in its development of the "EV Fleet Managed Charging Use Case."...

Where Once Were Black Boxes, NIST’s New LANTERN Illuminates

June 22, 2022

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new statistical tool that they have used to predict protein function.

Ellen Voorhees Wins Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award

Dr. Ellen M. Voorhees was announced as the recipient of the Ron Brown Excellence Award in Innovation as part of the 73rd Annual Department of Commerce award winners. The Secretary of Commerce noted that "former Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown saw...

NIST, North American Electric Reliability Corporation Publish Guide for Bulk Electric System's Cybersecurity

November 1, 2021

In 2020, NIST and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) mapped the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to NERC's Critical Infrastructure...

5815 Balance and Scale Calibration and Uncertainties - Canceled

Tue, Jun 21 - Fri, Jun 24 2022

This 4-day seminar will cover the calibration and use of analytical weighing instruments (balances and laboratory/bench

Fostering a Circular Economy and Carbon Sequestration for Construction Materials

Wed, Jun 8 2022, 9:30am - 5:00pm EDT

Recordings and slides now available You can access the presentations and slides from the workshop. Industry leaders are

Edge AI

With significant technology advancement and growing commercialization of edge/fog computing, edge AI (artificial intelligence) has now become a new frontier

NIST Handbook 105 Series

105-1: Specifications and Tolerances for Field Standard Weights Current Edition: 2019 Previous Edition: 1990 105-2: Specifications and...

Elizabeth Strychalski Named Outstanding Young Scientist

Dr. Strychalski founded and leads the Cellular Engineering Group at NIST, working to provide a foundation of measurements needed to support the design and control of engineered function in living systems. She conducts high-impact research in the...

Anoop Singhal

Title of Talk: SECURITY RISK ANALYSIS OF ENTERPRISE NETWORKS ABSTRACT: Protection of computer networks from malicious intrusions is critical...

Picture of prototype ultrasonic wearable device for proximity detection

Proximity Detection for Electronic Contact Tracing

The goal of this project is to help better prepare the nation for the next pandemic, whose occurrence is beyond debate and just a matter of time. Specifically

ACMD Seminar: Optimal Driving Under Traffic Signal Uncertainty

Mallory Gaspard Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University Tuesday, June 7, 3:00-4:00 EDT (1:00-2:00 MDT) A video of this talk is...

NIST Genome Editing Program

Genome Editing technologies have transformed the potential of biosciences and biotechnology by providing precision engineering tools that enable modifications

Black circle. White and gold lowercase A in the middle. Words around edge read: 28th Annual Video Distinction. Silver box below saying The Communicator Awards

NIST Staff Receive 2022 Communicators Award of Distinction for Video Animation

NIST's video "Post-Quantum Encryption: the Good, the Bad, and the Powerful" received a Communicators Award of Distinction in the Technology for Online Video category from the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA). Individuals recognized by the...

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