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https://www.nist.gov/ctl
Communications Technology Laboratory
CTL promotes the development and deployment of advanced communications technologies through the dissemination of high-quality measurements, data, and research supporting U.S. innovation, industrial competitiveness, and public safety.
5G Coexistence Testbed for Today’s Challenges and Tomorrow’s Opportunities
The resiliency of the American workforce depends on trusted communications systems now, more than ever...
CTL's funding is helping to create a tailored-to-public safety navigational platform to support the efficient and safe dispatch of personnel for emergency response...
The NIST Q-D Channel Realization software, initially released in August 2019, is a Three-Dimensional (3D) ray-tracing software developed in Matlab. It provides
Kate Kapalo is the Lead User Experience Researcher at NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research Division. Dr. Kapalo’s expertise lies at the intersection of
The Communication Technology Laboratory was pleased to take part in the CO-LABS panel discussion with U.S. Representative Joe Neguse (CO CD-2) to hear from
We’ve all come to rely on the navigation apps on our mobile devices to steer our daily itineraries. Within seconds of typing our destination into a blinking
NIST’s Material Measurement Laboratory and Communications Technology Laboratory are developing a new spectroscopy for intermolecular interactions. The team is
In this project we measure the fundamental electrical properties of materials from bulk to nanoscale from 1 MHz to 0.3 THz. Understanding the interaction of
The project resulted in the development of a test methodology to measure and collect co-channel interference effects between advanced waveforms of varying
The next generation of wireless communications technology will allow many more devices to send information much faster, making possible everything from virtual
First responders must be able to communicate during an emergency. Too often in critical situations, communications among public safety agencies are hampered by
Built in 2018, the PSCR Innovation Laboratory is focused on next-generation communication capabilities for first responders. The PSCR lab maintains a modernized
This experimental application was developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research Division (PSCR)