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The NIST Handbooks and NCWM: A Brief History

The U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 5) grants Congress the power to “fix the standard of weights and measures”. The NIST...

State Weights and Measures Directors

Systems Analysis Integration

Smart manufacturing system development and operations are difficult to manage because information about the systems and their analysis is expressed in redundant

AM Bench 2022 Measurements and Challenge Problems

Modelers are invited to submit simulation results for any challenges they like before the deadline of 23:59 (ET) on July 15, 2022. Tabulated...

ACMD Seminar: Conservation Laws, Lagrangian Dynamics, Diffeomorphisms and Weak Solutions

Barbara Lee Keyfitz Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Tuesday, May 10, 3:00-4:00 EDT (1:00-2:00 MDT) A video of this talk...

Digital Thread for Manufacturing

The Digital Thread for Manufacturing project will deliver methods, protocols, and tools for developing, conformance testing, increasing user-awareness, and

Inspired by Prehistoric Creatures, NIST Researchers Make Record-Setting Lenses

April 19, 2022

Five hundred million years ago, the oceans teemed with trillions of trilobites — creatures that were distant cousins of horseshoe crabs. All trilobites had a

Three foundational areas of smart connected systems with representative icons are shown: connectivity, devices and infrastructures, and people and processes. Trustworthiness concerns of security, safety, reliability, resilience, and privacy are in circle around smart connected systems.

Technical Foundations for Smart Connected Systems

The Smart Connected Systems Division (SCSD) has developed a series of foundational systems engineering frameworks, often published as NIST...

An illustration for AI shows a silhouette of a human head containing icons for computer networks.

U.S. Department of Commerce Appoints 27 Members to National AI Advisory Committee

April 14, 2022

Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the appointment of 27 experts to the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee ( NAIAC), which will

NIST Supports Measurements of Vitamins in Dietary Supplement Tablets

April 14, 2022

NIST Standard Reference Material ® 3289 Multivitamin Tablets will be used by testing laboratories to support the development of new analytical methods that

Pressure

The devices and cells listed here are available for use on all SANS instruments. Capabilities Compatible Equipment Equipment Max. Pressure...

2022 Distinguished Career Award in Chemistry - Ted Heilweil

In recognition for seminal contributions to the advancement of vibrational spectroscopy and mentoring an entire generation of scientists to

Adam Jacoff and David Schmitt Receive DOC FY 2021 Real Property Portfolio Award

For cleaning out and vacating NIST materials from the NIKE site so that the property could be sold and for developing the Program of

Ho Yeung Receives ASME Best Organizer of Symposium & Sessions (BOSS) Award

Awarded to the best organizer of ASME symposia and sessions related to Manufacturing Engineering

Therese McAllister is a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers

Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers

Lin Lingnan is Selected into the 2022-2023 Early Career Leadership Intern Program to Serve Engineering (ECLIPSE)

Dr. Lingnan Lin is selected into the 2022-2023 Early Career Leadership Intern Program to Serve Engineering (ECLIPSE) and will serve as the

Marc Levitan Receives Top 25 Newsmakers of 2021 - Award of Excellence

For his successful efforts getting the first-ever requirements for tornado-resistant design adopted in the 2022 version of ASCE 7

Shawn Moylan Receives ASME Outstanding Service Award

Award honors dedicated service by outstanding performance, demonstrated effective leadership, prolonged and committed service, devotion

Illustration shows coffee cup with magnified section showing plastic particles.

NIST Study Shows Everyday Plastic Products Release Trillions of Microscopic Particles Into Water

April 20, 2022

Researchers analyzed widely used consumer products to better understand these microscopic plastics.

About SCSD

The Smart Connected Systems Division (SCSD) in NIST’s Communication Technology Laboratory (CTL) started internal operations in October 2021...

OWM Welcomes New Associate, Jan Konijnenburg

Jan received his master’s degree in electrical engineering from Delft University of Technology, in Delft, Netherlands in 1996. In 2004...

Haiying Guan

Title of Talk: Open Media Forensic Challenge (OpenMFC) Evaluation Program ABSTRACT: The rapid advance of artificial intelligence (AI) has...

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NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms

July 5, 2022

Federal agency reveals the first group of winners from its six-year competition.

RADWAG WTC 600 Precision Balance

Please see manual.

OWM Technical Analysis

The OWM Technical Analysis and associated Executive Summary is a set of documents prepared by the NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM)...

OWM Federal Staff

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OSAC Standards Bulletin - April 2022

This Standards Bulletin from the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science provides a monthly update on: Standards moving through...

75th Anniversary of Mathematics and Statistics at NIST

Tue, Jun 28 - Thu, Jun 30 2022

This year marks the 75 th anniversary of the establishment of the first mathematical and statistical organizations

Quantitative, Traceable Determination of Cell Viability Using Absorbance Microscopy

Most cell-based protocols require knowledge of the number of live and dead cell populations. The current methods, however, lack traceability, which is

First Complete Human Genome Poised to Strengthen Genetic Analysis, NIST Study Shows

March 31, 2022

Alongside the newly updated human genome, which fills in long-standing gaps to fully spell out the more than 3 billion letters that compose our genetic code, a

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