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Projects/Programs

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Automotive Lightweighting

Ongoing
Our objective is to support the efforts of the US automotive industry and its suppliers to incorporate advanced lightweight materials for improving fuel economy

Climate Science

Ongoing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is working to advance measurement capabilities needed to study the world’s climates. Climate Science

Community Resilience Program

Ongoing
Community resilience has emerged as a way to reduce the direct and indirect costs due to natural, technological, and human-caused hazard events. There continues

Data Tools for Environmental Metrology

Ongoing
A major goal of the NIST Biorepository is to address large scale interdisciplinary questions about the environment. Each sample contained in the bank can be

FOREST

Ongoing
The NIST Headquarters in Gaithersburg, MD also provides a convenient testbed to evaluate the current state of knowledge relating optical remote sensing to

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Transport

Ongoing
The capabilities of the NIST National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL) will be extended to provide a test bed for performance evaluation of instruments and test