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The development of a materials innovation infrastructure (MII) that will enable rapid and significant reductions in the development time for new materials with
“Digital disruption is a change in industry triggered by advances in information and communications technology. During the next few years, the technologies
According to the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) report on Strategy for American Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing 1 and recent industrial
AM data is essential for establishing part traceability, understanding AM processes and making decisions during the product development lifecycle. The curation
The maturation of additive manufacturing (AM) into an industrialization (wide-scale production) technology requires an expanded notion of integration of both AM
One of the major goals of the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) is to facilitate the exchange of materials data to speed material discovery and development. The
The NIST Information Access Division (IAD) initiated a Data Science Research Program (DSRP) aimed to advance the measurement science for big data and data
A major goal of the NIST Biorepository is to address large scale interdisciplinary questions about the environment. Each sample contained in the bank can be
The availability of safe pure drinking water in the United States is taken for granted. The presence of dangerous microorganisms, viruses and toxins in our
This project aims to develop deep generative models, an emerging topic in AI, for radio frequency (RF) waveforms collected from real-world communications
Healthcare is big part of the national economy. Medical Imaging has emerged over the past several decades as a critical diagnosis and therapeutic tool. However
Optical systems that operate at wavelengths in the ultraviolet (UV) and extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) are susceptible to degradation by a number of different
Density Functional Tight Binding (DFTB) methods have been shown to be capable of producing reliable molecular structures and energetics at a significantly
FEMA Responders often face daunting challenges during search and rescue tasks in dangerous environments. As such, the concept of including robots as a part of
With the signing of the Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA), National Metrology Institutes (NMI's) and Regional Metrology Organizations (RMO's) around the
This project will address upcoming needs and take advantage of new resources associated with the completion of National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL). The
The Community Resilience Program is developing resilience metrics and integrated models of physical, social, and economic systems at the community scale. These
A scanning probe microscope (SPM) in its simplest form uses a fine probe tip in proximity to a sample surface to measure a particular physical property. SPMs
Nano and atomic scale theory of the electronic, optical and mechanical properties of ultrasmall structures, such as semiconductor quantum dots and dopants in Si
The long records (sometimes over 100 years) of surface temperatures available from meteorological monitoring stations in the Unites States can be a valuable
High performance optical radiometers with selected optical detectors are being designed, characterized, and calibrated in the Optical Radiation Group for the
The Sensor Readout Project within the Quantum Electronics Group leverages the sensitivity of superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), low-noise
Until recently calibrations of tristimulus colorimeters were performed against lamp standards. However, the uncertainty of these source-based calibrations