Industry Impacts

Advanced Communications, Networks and Scientific Data Systems

NIST’s activities help enable secure, reliable, high-speed wireless and wireline communications critical to U.S. economic competitiveness, safety and security. NIST is committed to helping solve the measurement and validation challenges of fast-moving fields including “internet of things” (IoT) applications, drones and future artificial intelligence/machine learning-based systems.

Propagation-Channel Measurements and Hardware Verification

Alliance for 5G Networks

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Biometric Standards for Law Enforcement

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Building Automation and Control

Computer scientist Murugiah Souppaya investigates security techniques for protecting virtuallized computing environments and cloud computing systems.

Cybersecurity Framework

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First Responder Communications

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Framing the Future of the Electric Grid

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Human-Robot Collaboration

Test Bed

Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity

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Software Usability

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Ultimate Reference for Mathematical Modeling