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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
The primary project objective is to develop new methods for experimental characterization of dynamic interference impacts on adaptive, closed-box COTS communication links. Specific goals include: Dissemination of low-cost, general-purpose testbed designs for interference testing. Methods to assess...

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...

Advanced Fluid Characterization - Laboratory Information Management System

Ongoing
Breath sampling of cannabis users. In 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 Materials Design: Electronic and Functional Applications

Ongoing
Accelerating Materials Discovery using Machine Learning and AI Using machine learning and AI techniques along with high-throughput DFT calculations materials with specific properties are identified to accelerate the the discovery process for a variety of applications. Some of the specific materials...

Advanced Security Architectures for Next Generation Wireless

Ongoing
National Priorities: The National Strategy to Secure 5G and Implementation Plan goals to: facilitate the rollout of 5G domestically; assess the cybersecurity risks to and identify core security principles of 5G capabilities and infrastructure; address risks to United States economic and national...

AI-Optimized Building Controls

Ongoing
Objective Demonstrate the feasibility of practical AI control techniques for reducing the energy costs of operating HVAC systems in commercial buildings and create a research infrastructure, the Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory (IBAL) and Virtual Cybernetic Building Testbed (VCBT), suitable...

Annual Machine Learning for Materials Research Bootcamp

Ongoing
Four days of lectures and hands-on exercises covering a range of data analysis topics from introduction to python and data pre-processing to advanced machine learning analysis techniques. Example topics include: Identifying important features in complex/high dimensional data Visualizing high...

ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard

Ongoing
Recent Announcements Update: The ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2025 ballot was unanimously approved by a vote of 75% of the canvassees. Comments were received and the dispositions will be applied to the final version. Update: Work on the ANSI/NIST-ITL addendum for 2026 has commenced. If you are interested in...

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 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...

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 Synthesis of Metal-Organic Frameworks

Ongoing
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) show great promise for a variety of applications, from industrial gas separation, to catalysis, to PFAS absorption. One challenge to the adoption of these technologies is determining and optimizing the synthesis of these materials. There are large computational...

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...

EV Battery Passport

Completed
End-of-life issues associated with EV batteries (EVBs) are estimated to have a steep rise in the coming decades. Given the finite nature of material resources worldwide, developing a circular EV batteries (EVB) infrastructure is needed to keep high value battery materials in the economy, therefore...

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

Ongoing
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...

Biosecurity for Synthetic Nucleic Acid Sequences

Ongoing
Synthetic nucleic acid technologies are fundamental to U.S. biotechnology and biomanufacturing innovation. However, like other transformative technologies, they carry dual-use potential: while they can drive significant progress, they pose risks of unintentional or deliberate misuse to engineer...

AI for Building Systems Innovation (AIBSI) Program

Ongoing
Objective To develop and deploy advances in measurement science that will improve building operations to ensure cyber-secure facilities, system reliability, occupant comfort/safety and lower operating costs through AI-enabled building systems. What is the problem? Buildings are complex systems of...
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