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Projects/Programs

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5G & Beyond

Ongoing
“5G and beyond” refers to future generations of mobile wireless communication systems. The vision for these next-generation systems are to enable groundbreaking

5G/6G Core Networks and Services

Ongoing
This program aims to advance networking and measurement sciences and promote consensus standards and best practices for the evolution from 5G to 6G, focusing on

High Assurance Domains

Ongoing
NIST is working with the Internet industry to design, standardize and foster deployment of technologies to improve the security and robustness of enterprise

Information Centric Networking Program

Ongoing
Information access is the dominant use case in today's Internet with more than 90% of Internet traffic being content distribution, mainly due to video streaming

Internet Infrastructure Protection

Ongoing
ITL’s Internet Infrastructure Protection (IIP) program, led by the Advanced Network Technologies Division (ANTD), works with industry to develop the measurement

Quantum Communications and Networks

Ongoing
The Quantum Communication and Networks Project develops quantum devices and studies them for use in quantum communications and networking applications. Our goal

Quantum Optical Networks

Ongoing
This program develops new measurement techniques, tests and performance procedures, standards, and best practices to enable industry and government to gain

Robust Inter-Domain Routing

Ongoing
We live in a network-centric society that increasingly relies on the Internet’s routing infrastructure to facilitate human communication, connect users to

Software Defined Virtual Networks

Ongoing
NIST is working to develop test and measurement techniques to advance the state of the art in network virtualization, network service function chaining

Trusted Spectrum Testing

Ongoing
The availability of wireless spectrum bandwidth has a profound impact on US industry’s ability to engineer a new generation of wireless devices. This program

Trustworthy Intelligent Networks

Ongoing
NIST is working with industry and academia to improve the trustworthiness and applicability of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to

Trustworthy Networks Program

Ongoing
NIST works with industry partners to advance the research, standardization and adoption of technologies necessary to increase the security, privacy, resilience

USGv6 Program

Ongoing
NIST is Working with other USG agencies and industry to develop and maintain the standards, test program, deployment guidance and test and measurement tools