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John Messina Wins INCITS Service Award

INCITS recognizes Mr. Messina for his numerous contributions to the INCITS/Cloud38 – Cloud Computing and Distributed Platforms standards community. John Messina has been a member of INCITS/Cloud38 and its vice-chair for several years and has held...

2015 - Bronze Medal Award---Allen R. Goldstein

For accelerating the integration of renewable energy into the power grid through establishing an international accreditation and test program.

Workshop and Call for Position Papers on Standards and Guidelines to Enhance Software Supply Chain Security

May 17, 2021

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a virtual workshop on June 2 and 3, 2021 to enhance the security of the software supply...

5751 LPG (Propane) -Verifying the Net Contents of 20 lb Cylinders (Part 1)

Mon, Jul 26 2021, 10:00am - 3:00pm EDT

PART 1 "Exchange Locations and Vending Machines" This 5-hour webinar will include a morning and afternoon session, with

SAMATE Bibliography

Bugs Framework (BF)

Title: Bugs Framework (BF) Webpage: BF Welcome! (https://pages.nist.gov/BF/) Irena Bojanova, PI & Lead The Bugs Framework (BF) is a...

Announcing The FISSEA Summer Forum: June 17, 2021 | Registration Is Now Open!

May 14, 2021

Announcing The FISSEA Summer Forum The FISSEA Forums are quarterly meetings to provide opportunities for policy and programmatic updates, the exchange of best...

Examples of Framework Profiles

The Framework Profile (“Profile”) is the alignment of the Functions, Categories, and Subcategories with the business requirements, risk...

Wireless Networks Division Tools

This page contains references to the tools, datasets, and simulation models developed by the Wireless Networks Division to support its...

Firefighters spray water into a burning concrete building with a sign saying "NIST Fire Research."

How AI Could Alert Firefighters of Imminent Danger

June 1, 2021

Firefighting is a race against time. Exactly how much time? For firefighters, that part is often unclear. Building fires can turn from bad to deadly in an...

Ellen Voorhees - NIST Fellow

ITL is pleased to announce that Dr. Ellen Voorhees has been named a NIST Fellow. Dr. Voorhees is a pioneer and recognized leader in the U.S. Government’s efforts to advance the state of the art in information retrieval technology through evaluation...

Workshop and Call for Position Papers

Workshop and Call for Position Papers on Standards and Guidelines to Enhance Software Supply Chain Security Final Agenda NOTE: This workshop...

FAQs

NOTE: See a separate set of FAQs related to NIST's assignment to work on cybersecurity labeling for consumers Q1. What past work has NIST...

NIST Releases Tips and Tactics for Dealing With Ransomware

May 13, 2021

Used in cyberattacks that can paralyze organizations, ransomware is malicious software that encrypts a computer system’s data and demands payment to restore...

2021 Baldrige Award Evaluations Set to Begin Soon

May 17, 2021

With Baldrige examiner training recently completed, evaluation teams will be formed starting this week for the annual Baldrige Award process , which will kick...

NIST team probes indestructible quantum states that may aid quantum computing

May 14, 2021

They may not be impervious to bullets like Superman, but groups of electrons that gather along the edges of some ultrathin materials have their own superpowers...

Metrology of Dim Light Sources

Luminescent tags are molecular highlighters. They enable light-based biological assays, visualize biological processes, and are used as diagnostic and

Quantitative Information from Images

Photographs, or optical light images, are spatial records of light reflected or emitted from objects. Thus, they are prospective light measurements. In many

Methods for Community Resilience Tradeoffs

Communities facing natural hazard risks are often concerned with other risks as well, including sea-level rise, resource depletion, and pandemics. Thus

5750 LPG (Propane) - Verifying the Net Contents of 20 lb Cylinders (Part 1)

Wed, Jun 30 2021, 10:00am - 3:00pm EDT

PART 1 "Exchange Locations and Vending Machines" This 5-hour webinar will include a morning and afternoon session, with

Dew-point measurements for water in compressed gases

This project has been completed. The paper reporting the results is provided here. The NIST Thermodynamic Metrology Group (TMG) used its standard gravimetric

5748 Contract Review

Thu, Jul 29 2021, 2:00 - 4:00pm EDT

This 2-hour webinar will introduce the fundamentals of contract review that are necessary to meet customer expectations

5747 Document Control and Record Keeping

Thu, Jul 22 2021, 2:00 - 4:00pm EDT

This 2-hour webinar will introduce the fundamentals of Laboratory Management System Document Control and Record Keeping

Quantum Waveform Metrology

Practically all measurable physical phenomena are eventually transformed into corresponding electrical representations. The transduction of a signal into its

Race Logic: Novel Circuitry Solves a Myriad of Computationally Intensive Problems With a Minimum of Energy

May 11, 2021

From the branching pattern of leaf veins to the variety of interconnected pathways that spread the coronavirus, nature thrives on networks — grids that link the...

Thirumalai Venkatesan Named 2021 Fellow of the Royal Society

He is the inventor of the pulsed laser deposition process and is a pioneer in its application to thin films of complex oxides and related multi component materials, which has transformed research on films/ heterostructures globally.

Robert Ivester Receives 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award

The UMass Amherst College of Engineering announced the five recipients of its 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award representing the college’s five departments. Robert W. Ivester ’91, ’93 MS, ’96 PhD, Acting MEP Director and Deputy Director at the National...