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Information Technology

Projects/Programs

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Actionable Intelligence

Ongoing
A large portion of this project involves a collaboration with the Engineering Laboratory’s (EL) Model-based Enterprise program, specifically with the Knowledge Extraction and Application for Manufacturing Operations project. This collaboration has focused on the analysis of maintenance work order

Activities in Extended Videos Evaluation

Ongoing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed the Activities in Extended Video (ActEV) evaluations series to support the needs of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) Deep Intermodal Video Analytics (DIVA) Program. An activity for ActEV evaluation is

Adaptive Closed-Box Interference Susceptibility Testing

Ongoing
Our approach combines state-of-the-art testbed automation, RF metrology, data analytics, and machine learning to develop flexible, broad-purpose methods that will enable efficient, rigorous testing. Specifically, we plan to establish methods for experimental characterization of closed-box

Advanced DDoS Mitigation Techniques

Ongoing
Background In recent years the threat of DDoS) attacks on the Internet seems to be significantly increasing. The rapidly growing threat can be characterized by the orders of magnitude increases in the bandwidth of such attacks (from 100s of millions bits per second, to 100s of billions bits per
diagram of lab information management system

Advanced Fluid Characterization - Laboratory Information Management System

Ongoing
Breath sampling of cannabis users. I n July 2019, the National Institute of Justice awarded our team funding for a three-year project to provide the chemical foundation for industry to develop a cannabis breathalyzer. We are developing new experimental methods to enhance the clinical, thermodynamic

Advanced Security Architectures for Next Generation Wireless

Ongoing
The US Government, and the Department of Commerce in particular, has identified the development and commercialization of Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) technologies as a strategic priority in the evolution of next-generation wireless networks and a key enabler for the US IT industry to increase

ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard

Ongoing
Recent Announcements Save the Date: NIST welcomes your participation in the ANSI/NIST-ITL in-person workshop on April 22-24, 2025 to update the ANSI/NIST-ITL standard. The workshop will be held at the NIST NCCoE facility in Rockville, Maryland. In-person participation is strongly encouraged and

Atomic Wavefunctions

Ongoing
The numerical solution of the multi-particle Schrodinger equation describing atomic systems remains a challenging for computational physics. ITL scientists are in the forefront of this field with respect to extremely high-accuracy computation of non-relativistic eigenstates of few electron systems.
Augmented intelligence

Augmented Intelligence for Manufacturing Systems (AIMS)

Ongoing
Objective To overcome existing measurement challenges via augmented intelligence, the fusion of integrated metrology, physics-based models, and artificial intelligence, to enable monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics of manufacturing systems and their processes. Technical Idea One research
Operating Envelope Specification supports automated driving safety measurement, key to testing and public acceptance of automated vehicles

Automated Vehicles and AV Communications

Ongoing
Automated vehicles (AVs), or Automated Driving Systems-equipped (ADS-equipped) vehicles, have great potential to improve our lives by freeing us from the stress of driving and reducing accidents caused by distractions or poor judgement. Connected, reliable, and safe AVs will spark significant

Autonomous Systems Assurance

Ongoing
Achieving assured autonomy in any environment requires methods for measuring the input space, to show that the test environment adequately covers real-world conditions that may be encountered. Although some statistical and structural coverage metrics are relevant, they are terribly inadequate for

Biometric Compression Information

Ongoing
Friction Ridge Compression On February 24, 2014 we proudly announced the release of the final version of this guidance! You can download the final version of the guidance here: NIST Special Publication 500-289 Final (02/24/2014) More recently, on April 7, 2016, we're proud to announce the release of

Biometric Quality

Ongoing
Quality analysis is a technical challenge because it is most helpful when the measures reflect the performance sensitivities of one or more target biometric matchers. NIST addressed this problem in August 2004 when it issued the NIST Fingerprint Image Quality algorithm, which was designed to be

Biometrics

With the need for improved homeland security, biometrics were identified as a key enabling technology. NIST (because of its mission and track record) supports the government-wide effort to increase the collection of good quality biometrics, to see that the data collected is appropriately shared with

Biometrics Web Services (BWS)

Ongoing
News A WS-Biometric Devices Walkthrough is now available. This document provides step by step instructions to develop a WS-BD web camera service. NBIS.Net 5.0.0 is available. This release provides access to NBIS 5.0.0 functionality from within any .Net language. NIST has published an updated
Genetic codes

Biosecurity for Synthetic Nucleic Acid Sequences

Ongoing
Emerging biotechnology, enabled by the ability to genetically engineer biological systems similar to the way we write software and program computers, can provide solutions to many pressing societal needs related to health, food security, supply chain resilience, and job growth for economic and
Map of the Northern hemisphere Pacific Ocean, with environmental specimen sampling sites indicated with data points in the Hawaiian Islands, Alaska, and Bering Sea locations.

Classification Methods for the NIST Biorepository

Ongoing
NIST has been archiving biological and environmental specimens, including marine animal and environmental samples, for over 40 years. Currently, these biospecimens are stored at cryogenic temperatures in the NIST Biorepository located at the Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, SC. Various
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Comparative Mammalian Proteome Aggregator Resource (CoMPARe) Program

Ongoing
Comparative proteomics strives to gain insight into key underlying molecular changes that result in unique phenotypes across related taxa. Proteomic analysis complements comparative genomics by providing evidence of protein abundance, orthogonal to gene copy number and amount of transcript. To
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Comparative Serum Proteomics Project

Ongoing
State-of-the-art biomolecular analysis is no longer limited to model organisms and is becoming routine in non-model organisms. Major drivers of this emerging bioanalytical capacity include increasing accessibility and quality of sequenced genomes as well as high-resolution fast-duty cycle mass

Composition in IoT/CPS

Completed
One approach develops a ‘CPS algebra’ based on a formal language that offers the expressive power needed to capture the observable behavior of Cyber-Physical System (CPS) components, and at the same time offers a way to express the notion of composition of CPSs. A second effort extends the in