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Bala Muralikrishnan Receives 2021 Arthur S. Flemming Award

Dr. Bala Muralikrishnan is recognized for his seminal research in precision dimensional metrology, which is accelerating the adoption of next-generation coordinate scanning technologies for applications in advanced manufacturing, forensics science...

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NIST, NSF Award More Than $7.6 Million to Support Disaster Resilience Research

May 4, 2022

The agencies are funding 20 projects to be conducted across 24 institutions through the Disaster Resilience Research Grant (DRRG) program, which they manage...

Study Links Urbanization to Poor Ecological Knowledge, Less Environmental Action

May 4, 2022

A new study by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators highlights a sharp contrast between urban and suburban...

Recognition of Jose A. Torres Ferrer

José Torres Ferrer has been an invaluable assistant and lead instructor for over 140 seminars and nearly 1500 students in the past twenty‐five years covering a full range of laboratory topics covered by the Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) as...

Software Security in Supply Chains

Introduction The Executive Order (EO) on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity released on May 12, 2021 acknowledges the increasing number of...

NIST Seeks Inputs on its Draft Guide to Operational Technology Security

April 26, 2022

NIST has released its public draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-82r3, Guide to Operational Technology (OT) Security. This is the third revision of NIST...

Improving Resource Efficiency for the Textile Industry

Introduction A circular economy (CE) approach aims to more efficiently leverage our existing resources to create domestic and sustainable...

From a circle reading 5G, lines extend outward to smaller images representing some of 5G's applications, which include telemedicine and autonomous vehicles.

NIST Requests Public Comment on Draft Guidance for 5G Cybersecurity

April 26, 2022

As wireless networks transition to 5G technology, they could enable a host of new capabilities — but they also will place new cybersecurity demands on industry.

Smart Connected Systems Division Newsletters

Smart Connected Systems Division Newsletters April 2025 March 2025 February 2025 January 2025 December 2024 November 2024 October 2024...

Leadership to the IEEE P3388 Standard Working Group (previously IEEE P1451.5p)

September 1, 2021

NIST researchers Rick Candell, Karl Montgomery, Mohamed Hany, and Kang Lee are providing technical leadership to the IEEE P3388 standard committee (previously...

Reliable, High Performance Industrial Wireless Systems: Wi-Fi and TSN

Smart Manufacturing Systems provide a vision of future manufacturing systems that incorporate highly dynamic physical systems, robust and responsive

2022 Excellence in Research Award in Physical and Information Sciences - Alexey Gorshkov

In recognition for pioneering, fundamental contributions to the understanding, design, and control of large, interacting quantum systems, with applications including quantum computers, quantum sensors, and quantum networks.

ACMD Seminar: A Volterra Integral Equation Approach to the Time Dependent Schrödinger Equation

Ryan Schneider Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 3:00-4:00 EDT (1:00-2:00 MDT) A video of this talk is...

The Force Behind the Mask: How American Ingenuity is Saving the U.S. from a PPE Disaster

April 21, 2022

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded AFFOA (Advanced Functional Fabrics of America) and 16 cross...

Space Cybersecurity Symposium III: Cybersecurity – Global and Applied Topics

Thu, Jun 16 2022

The Department of Commerce (DOC) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) invite you to their jointly hosted space

NIST Releases Study on Blockchain and Related Technologies for Manufacturing Supply Chain Traceability

April 20, 2022

Manufacturing supply chains are increasingly susceptible to disruptions and are targets for bad actors seeking to steal proprietary information and/or sabotage...

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‘Exceptional’ Research: Unexpected Light Behavior May Be Harnessed to Improve Optical Communications and Sensors

April 21, 2022

Shine a flashlight into murky pond water and the beam won’t penetrate very far. Absorption and scattering rapidly diminishes the intensity of the light beam...

State Metrology Laboratories

NIST Produces Complete Suite of Supports for Testing for Allergens in Food

April 25, 2022

With the addition of two new reference materials containing tree nuts, NIST now offers a complete set of aids for detecting allergens in food. As of 2022, the U...

NIST Supports Accurate Food Labeling with New Standard Reference Material for Fat

April 20, 2022

NIST Standard Reference Material® 2386 Avocado Powder helps food manufacturers evaluate their methods for determining the elements, vitamins, amino acids, fatty...

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...

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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...

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