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Projects/Programs

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Research Data Framework (RDaF)

Ongoing
What is the Research Data Framework? A map of the research data space: who, what, where, why, when? A dynamic guide for the various stakeholders in research data to understand best practices for research data management and dissemination A resource for understanding costs, benefits, and risks...

Robust Inter-Domain Routing

Ongoing
Today’s global Internet is comprised of roughly 1,000,000 distinct destination routes interconnected by 60,000 enterprise and Internet Service Provider (ISP) networks. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the “glue” that enables the modern Internet, by exchanging reachability information about each...

Safety-Related Usability Framework

Ongoing
NIST, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) are collaborating on a multi-year research program aimed at building a principled framework for measuring the usability of health IT systems. The ultimate...

SCOUT

Ongoing
SCOUT (Scalable Object Understanding Technology) is a software system that finds all objects of interest in an entire microscope slide and provides various quality assurance metrics. It is designed to detect objects of size ~100 2 pixels in very large (~ 100K x 50K pixels) 10x magnification...

Security Content Automation Protocol

Ongoing
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Security - Health Information Technology

Ongoing
Specifically in the area of health IT, NIST researchers are: Leveraging security automation principles and specifications to develop baseline security configuration checklists and toolkits to aid organizations in implementing the HIPAA Security Rule standards and implementation specifications...

Security for Internet Systems and IETF

Ongoing
Our work will significantly improve the state of security metrology, improving the quantification of operational and technical security and increasing the ability to perform science for information security based on sound, consistent measures. This will initially impact all Federal agencies, and...

SED Consulting Program

Ongoing
Description: Specific SED contributions include: Leadership in the establishment of a high standard of statistical practice within NIST via interactions with technical staff, publications, workshops, and seminars. Design and analysis of experiments, and evaluation of measurement uncertainties for...

Short Courses

Ongoing
Topics, along with a description, for previously-taught classes are below. New topics are being considered. If you have a suggestion for a course, or would like to request that a course be taught, please contact Julia Sharp (julia.sharp [at] nist.gov (julia[dot]sharp[at]nist[dot]gov)).

Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation (Slapseg) Overview

Ongoing
SlapSeg04 was the first and evaluated a slap segmentation algorithm's ability to segment fingerprints that could be matched using high end fingerprint matching technology. SlapsegII started in 2009 and compares the slap segmentation algorithm's output to hand marked ground truth results. This...

Smart and Connected Systems

Ongoing
Collections of interrelated systems consisting of information technology (IT) devices, sensors, and actuators that can seamlessly interact. By incorporating the functions of sensing, actuation, and control these systems can measure, describe, and analyze data in order to make decisions thereby...

Smart Grid Communications

Completed
Currently, the Smart Grid faces challenges in terms of reliability and security in both wired and wireless communication environments. The most important challenge is a lack of communication network infrastructure, which is a key factor in supporting the grid monitoring system. In the absence of any...

Smart Grid Interoperability Testbed Facility

Ongoing
Objective - To develop and progress an advanced multi-mode interacting measurement testbed that leverage cross-OU expertise to facilitate implementation, validation, and full characterization of smart grid interoperability standards and smart grid performance, with a particular emphasis on DER...

Software Assurance Metrics And Tool Evaluation (SAMATE)

Ongoing
The SAMATE project is an inter-agency project between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and NIST, and consists of two parts: Development of metrics for the effectiveness of software security assessment (SSA) tools. assess current SSA methods and tools in order to identify deficiencies which...

Software and Data Carpentry

Ongoing
Software and Data Carpentry workshops conducted at NIST are designed to teach basic computing and data skills that enable NIST researchers to get more done in less time, while also making it easier to automate and document research workflows. These skills can allow for more rapid and reliable...

Software Defined Virtual Networks

Ongoing
Background Data networks have enabled extraordinary growth in capabilities such as email, the web, and social media; and today form the technical basis for our information-centric economy [1]. However, current network architectures and processes for technical evolution cannot support the complexity...

Software Performance Project

Completed
The mission of the Software Performance project is to strengthen the scientific foundations of software performance measurement ("metrology for IT"). Its goals are: Application: Replace unreliable common practices with rigorously-studied methods grounded in design of experiments Research: Solve...

Speaker and Language Recognition

Ongoing
Current Speaker and Language Recognition technology activities: Speaker Recognition Evaluation series: (1996-) A biennial NIST evaluation of fully automated text-independent speaker recognition technology. View the 2012 NIST SRE report. Human Assisted Speaker Recognition Evaluation series: (2010- )...

Speech Analytics

Ongoing
Current speech analytics work: OpenSAT is a new speech analytic evaluation series designed to include developers from multiple speech analytic technologies where common datasets are used in NIST evaluations. The goal is to bring together developers focused on different speech analytic tasks to...

Spintronics for Neuromorphic Computing

Ongoing
Magnetic tunnel junctions (see Fig. 1) consist of two thin films of ferromagnetic material separated by a few atomic layers of an insulating material. The insulator is so thin that electrons can tunnel quantum mechanically through it. The rate at which the electrons tunnel is affected by the...

Standards & Testing - Healthcare

Ongoing
Please continue to the Healthcare - Standards & Testing page. The site will provide information about the key health IT testing initiatives underway. It provides an overview of the Health IT Standards Testing Infrastructure as well as educational material on conformance testing, access to Meaningful...

Statistical Friction Ridge Analysis (SFRA)

Ongoing
Introduction Friction ridge analysis in crime scene investigation is one of the crucial forensic methods to find the suspects and victims of crime and solve cases. Latent fingerprints—the friction ridge patterns from fingertips left at crime scenes and photographed or lifted from the surfaces—are...

Statistical Support for Bioassay Standard Development

Ongoing
Biological assays are procedures that can determine concentration, purity, or biological activity of a substance through scientific experimentation. Fluorescence-based quantification one of the most widely used technique in quantitative clinical and biochemical assays, and it depends on the...

Statistics for Ballistics Identification

Ongoing
DESCRIPTION: Statistical Engineering Division has had an ongoing collaboration with NIST's Precision Engineering Division (now Semiconductor and Dimensional Metrology Division) and Office of Law Enforcement Standards (now in the Office of Special Programs) in the field of firearms and tool mark...
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