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Projects/Programs

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Measurement Science for Complex Information Systems

Ongoing
What are complex systems? Large collections of interconnected components whose interactions lead to macroscopic behaviors in: Biological systems (e.g., slime molds, ant colonies, embryos) Physical systems (e.g., earthquakes, avalanches, forest fires) Social systems (e.g., transportation networks...

Measurement Science for Robotics and Autonomous Systems Program

Ongoing
Objective Develop and deploy measurement science that advances robotic system performance, collaboration, agility, autonomy, safety, and ease of implementation to enhance U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness. Technical Idea The fundamental idea is to provide the measurement science needed...

METIS

Ongoing
A Metrology Exchange to Innovate in Semiconductors

Metrics for Manipulation and Enhancements of Forensic Images

Completed
Image metrics and well-defined algorithms will be researched and developed to analyze and quantify the image transformation processes applied by forensic scientists in the context of latent fingerprint analysis. The research will focus on two principal aspects. Image Enhancement Tools The...

Microstructure-Property Tools for Structure-Property Design

Ongoing
Materials Digital Twins for AM Current methodologies for designing digital twins in additive manufacturing (AM) exhibit two main approaches. The first method involves ML models that establish a direct correlation between input and output properties, overlooks materials structure and characterization...

Minutiae Interoperability Exchange (MINEX) Overview

Ongoing
MINEX III Minutiae Interoperability Exchange (MINEX) III is a continuing test of INCITS 378 fingerprint templates, as established in Annex A of NIST SP 800-76-2. The test is used to establish compliance of template generators and template matchers for the U.S. Government's Personal Identity...

Mobile Cloud Computing

Completed
Design robustness using formal language This effort develops a formal specification using the π-calculus to define a virtual device representation. It also describes a way to compose multiple virtual devices representing physical devices available on the network to build a composite virtual device...

Molecular Binding Prediction for Drug Design

Ongoing
Computer simulations of large multi-molecular networks are of fundamental importance to elucidate the underlying mechanisms of key biological functions in the human body. Our vision is that only the combination of computational and experimental data can lead to the needed insight into these complex...

Multimodal Biometrics

Ongoing
MBARK: to advance standards in biometric acquisition client technologies MBGC: to focus R&D community on multiple biometric applications to advance innovation while NIST assesses performance of emerging technologies

Multi-modal AI Models with Application to Precision Medicine

Ongoing
The main goals of this project are listed as follows. Define ML/DL architectures targeted at diverse datasets consisting of spectral images and metadata of different types. Train and test the resulting ML/DL networks on data from the MP and select the best ones. Using the above-developed ML/DL...

Multiple Biometric Evaluation (MBE)

Completed
MBE 2D Still Update The evaluation of 2D face recognition algorithms yielded two reports. First, NIST Interagency Report 7709 gave results for both verification and identification algorithms. Second, the NIST Interagency Report 7830 surveyed compression and resolution parameters for storing face...

Multiple Biometric Grand Challenge (MBGC)

Completed
Background Over the last decade, numerous government and industry organizations have or are moving toward deploying automated biometric technologies to provide increased security for their systems and facilities. Six U.S. Government organizations recently sponsored the...

National Software Reference Library

Ongoing
The National Software Reference Library (NSRL) is designed to collect software from various sources and incorporate file profiles computed from this software into a Reference Data Set (RDS) of information. The RDS can be used by law enforcement, government, and industry organizations to review files...

NCAL: Data Management

Ongoing
In the mechanical testing and materials science communities there is not a widely accepted solution for data management of test data. As part of NIST efforts on data archiving, provenance, and availability, we have worked to improve our data practices. We have extended our system beyond many out-of...

Neighborhood Area Communication Network

Completed
The smart grid is comprised of many networks (domains) with various boundaries that have to be interconnected to provide end-to-end services. The challenge is to design network architectures that can meet the interoperability requirements for inter-domain and intra-domain communications, as...

Network Modeling for Public Safety Communications

Ongoing
Advances in broadband wireless technologies developed by standard developing organizations (SDOs) such as 3GPP and IEEE 802 offer unprecedented capabilities that have the potential to improve the effectiveness of first responders. Our efforts are aimed at evaluating how well emerging solutions meet...

Neuromorphic Device Measurements

Ongoing
One type of device that is emerging as an attractive artificial synapse is the resistive switch, or memristor. These devices, which usually consist of a thin layer of oxide between two electrodes, have conductivity that depends on their history of applied voltage, and thus have highly nonlinear...

Next Generation Fingerprint Technologies

Ongoing
Contactless Fingerprint Capture This project is conducting research in support of emerging non-contact fingerprint acquisition devices. Issues being addressed include: data format standards, best practices, development of methods for certification testing, and assessment of interoperability with...

NIST Automated Vehicles Program

Ongoing
Measurement science and standards are needed to support the safe and predictable operation of future automated vehicles (AVs), which have great potential to significantly impact our daily lives and improve the competitiveness of our economy. A FY22 NIST Strategic and Emerging Research Initiatives...

The NIST Chemistry Webbook

Ongoing
Intended Impact It is part of NIST's mission to distribute Standard Reference Data to scientists, engineers, educators, and the general public. The NIST Chemistry WebBook is intended to help fulfill NIST's mission by distributing such data over the Internet. Objective Develop a web site that...

NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science

Ongoing
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider...

NIST Cloud Computing Program - NCCP

Completed
Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction...
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