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Primary optical watt radiometer (POWR)

Ongoing
The POWR, including the detector module, was completely designed by NIST to have the versatility to grow with NIST's needs and embrace new technologies. It provides optical power measurements with uncertainties of 0.01 % ( k=1), which have been verified by an intercomparison with two other cryogenic

Product Definitions for Smart Manufacturing

Completed
The Product Definitions for Smart Manufacturing project will deliver methods, protocols, and tools for developing, conformance testing, increasing user-awareness, and industrial adoption of product definition standards necessary for the digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises. Smart

Product Digital Information Visualization and Exploration

Completed
Objective - To deliver standards, methods, and tools that improve the usability and maintainability of product lifecycle data for (i) engineering design-focused analytics and (ii) advanced visualization modalities that leverage spatial computing technologies. What is the new technical idea? The

Product Lifecycle Data Exploration and Visualization

Ongoing
With the continuing emergence of low-cost, lightweight, and powerful hardware at the edge, opportunities grow for advancing methods, standards, and software tools for data exploration and visualization in smart manufacturing systems. Small and medium-sized enterprises have limited resources to

Prognostics, Health Management, and Control (PHMC)

Ongoing
Objective: Deliver methods, protocols, and tools for robust sensing, diagnostics, prognostics, and control that enable manufacturers to respond to planned (e.g., scheduled change-overs, new productivity targets) and un-planned (e.g., faults, failures) performance changes thereby enhancing the
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Project 25 Compliance Assessment Program

Ongoing
For several decades public safety agencies purchased and used equipment developed by disparate manufacturers and were operating on a different spectrum. As a result, this equipment often could not interoperate, preventing many public safety agencies from communicating when responding to critical
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Properties of Sustainable Fresh Concrete Project

Completed
Objective - Provide the industry with measurement science tools to predict whether a concrete can be pumped, with SRMs (Standard Reference Materials) to calibrate concrete rheometers and with tools for quality control in the field. What is the new technical idea? Fresh concrete is intended a

Proprietary Fingerprint Template Evaluations (PFT) Overview

Ongoing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Proprietary Fingerprint Template (PFT) program is an ongoing biometric technology evaluation program measuring the performance of fingerprint template generation and one-to-one verification software using vendor proprietary fingerprint templates

Protein Preservation

Completed
This project is an integral part of a cooperative effort – led by NIST, and partially funded by NIH/ NIBIB – which includes the University of Wisconsin, the University of Colorado, and the University of Connecticut. We use the following approach to develop measurement solutions for biopharmaceutical

Protein rheology measurements

Ongoing
Intended Impact Why does the health-care industry care about rheology and scattering of protein solutions? Operations. Viscosity is a critical and fundamental constitutive input for drug delivery, device design and manufacturing. For example, high viscosity leads to poor syringeability due to high

Prototype Cell Assay Measurement Platform (P-CAMP)

Ongoing
A systematic approach to the development of robust biological assay includes identifying and ranking the sources of variability in an assay protocol. With a focus on mammalian cellular assays, the Prototype Cell Assay Measurement Platform ( P-CAMP) laboratory was designed and built to take advantage
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Prototyping Platforms for Emerging Technologies

Ongoing
Emerging technologies aim to overcome traditional memory limitations with higher density, lower power consumption, faster read/write speeds, better endurance, and lower cost [2]. Many new candidate memory elements are analog or stochastic, requiring new testing infrastructure, and the context of
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Proximity Detection for Electronic Contact Tracing

Completed
We are developing performance metrics for not just ranging, but also for detecting close contacts, which in the context of COVID-19 is the situation where two people are less than six feet apart with no obstacles between them. Obviously, the duration of a close contact is important, as it affects
First Responders

Public Health Risks to First Responders

Ongoing
This project advances tools and methods to analyze per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in firefighter gear and workplaces, supporting the development of standards, policies, and best practices to reduce firefighter PFAS exposure.
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Public Safety 700-MHz Broadband Deployable Systems

Ongoing
The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (H.R. 3630) appropriated $7 billion for the establishment of a nationwide interoperable public safety broadband network (PSBN) under FirstNet, an independent authority in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
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Public Safety 700-MHz Broadband Modeling and Simulation

Ongoing
The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (H.R. 3630) appropriated $7 billion for the establishment of a nationwide interoperable public safety broadband network (PSBN) under FirstNet, an independent authority in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
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Public Safety Audio Quality

Ongoing
The audio codec (also called speech codec, voice coder, or vocoder) is a key hardware/software component in every digital radio or handset. At a transmitting location, the codec processes incoming audio into a concise digital representation for efficient transmission over the air. At the receiving
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Public Safety Broadband Cybersecurity

Ongoing
Along with the implementation of a nationwide public safety broadband network based on Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology, the network’s cybersecurity capabilities and features will be unique compared to traditional commercial mobile carriers due to public safety’s operational environment and

Public Safety Broadband Requirements and Standards Project Description

Ongoing
PSCR has actively participated in the requirements gathering and standards development process for public safety communications since its inception in 2007. "The PSCR (Public Safety Communications Research) staff ... has traveled the world over, going to 3GPP meetings and going from a point where we

Public Safety Communications Program

Ongoing
America’s first responders deal with emergencies every day. And whether it is a routine traffic stop, a multi-alarm fire, or a large-scale event, such as Hurricanes Harvey and Sandy, or the attacks on 9/11, the ability of first responders to communicate with each other--on-scene as well as through

Public Safety Communications Research

Ongoing
Too often in critical situations communications the data exchanges between law enforcement and public safety agencies are hampered by equipment incompatibilities. In large part these incompatibilities are due to a lack of standards to provide a common, nationwide approach to telecommunications and
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Public Safety Image Quality

Ongoing
Here is our plan in a nutshell: Ask how first responders how their department uses photos and video Collect images that demonstrate the many ways first responders use photography Identify patterns—image and video quality problems that impact many first responders Stimulate innovation on novel camera
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