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Novel Psychoactive Substance (NPS) Data Hub

Ongoing
A growing portion of forensic drug laboratory’s workload is the identification of novel psychoactive substances (NPSs), or emerging synthetic drugs (ESDs), presented as exhibit materials after seizure events. A pressing need exists for the rapid characterization of both the active ingredient(s) and...

Novel Sources for Focused-ion Beams

Completed
Commercial focused ion beams (FIBs) are used in a wide variety of applications. For example, they serve as diagnostic tools, slicing through a nanodevice to expose its internal structure. They can also shape nanoscale materials either by adding atoms to a structure or by shaving them off. And they...

NRC Postdoctoral Associate Program

Ongoing
Description: The Statistical Engineering Division (SED), within the Information Technology Laboratory, serves primarily as a research and consulting group working with the NIST scientific staff. Members of the Division engage in research in the areas of statistical graphics, reliability, linear...

Numerical Reproducibility

Ongoing
The Information Systems group in ITL is developing a program in numerical reproducibility, which has been funded through several projects. Issues with numerical reproducibility are becoming increasingly significant, for several reasons Increased use of parallel computing has caused order of...

Object Oriented Finite Elements (OOF)

Ongoing
The best and most current information about the OOF software, including current downloads, can be found at the main OOF site. The general workflow of the OOF software begins with a 2D or 3D image. OOF provides tools for maniupating the image to highlight scientifically important features, and to...

Ocean Color

Ongoing
The primary reference instrument for the United States and most international ocean-color sensors is the Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY), an automated radiometric system operated by NOAA and deployed about 20 km offshore from Lanai, Hawaii, where the atmospheric and water conditions support utilizing...

Ontologies and Interoperability in Evolutionary Comparative Analysis

Completed
Intended impact Nearly all scientists who regularly use online resources on genes, proteins and genomes make use of comparative data to advance biomedical research. For instance, researchers often make useful inferences by comparing human genes (as well as proteins, reactions, interactions, pathways...

Ontology for Mapping Platform Configuration in Security Properties

Ongoing
The output of this project will improve the trust in the most vulnerable (weakest) element participating in a trusted cyber transaction. Additionally, the extensible ontology will enable establishment of assurance measures for new types of online transactions as they emerge.

OOF

Ongoing
The OOF project is a software development project designed to make advanced computational modeling capabilities available to materials science researchers who are not themselves computational experts. Researchers bring domain expertise from materials science to assist in building high-quality finite...

Open Access to Research (OAR)

Ongoing
Major Capabilities: Data Services and Tools: The OAR systems provide end-to-end workflow to deliver research outputs to the public. NIST Management of Institutional Data Assets (MIDAS) is a comprehensive application suite developed for orchestrating research data and code publication, data...

Open Port Liquid Interface Mass Spectrometry

Ongoing
Rapid screening for chemical traces of explosives and narcotics is widely used to support homeland security and law enforcement. These target compounds span a range of physicochemical properties from organic to inorganic, with preferential ionization pathways in both negative and positive mode...

Open RAN Interoperability

Ongoing
Open RAN aims to enable components from different vendors to work together seamlessly. However, integrating elements from various suppliers poses technical challenges. It requires thorough testing, standardization, and collaboration to ensure that hardware and software work together seamlessly. This...

Open RAN Research at NIST

Ongoing
Network Disaggregation An Open RAN gNB is a decentralized gNB and consists of three parts, each with its own hardware/software: Radio Unit (RU); Distributed Unit (DU); Control Unit (CU). Each unit in Open-RAN takes over a section of gNB tasks. The RU has the responsibility of transmitting and...

OpenCALPHAD

Ongoing
Thermodynamic data are essential for the understanding, developing, and processing of materials. The CALPHAD technique has made it possible to calculate properties of multicomponent systems using databases of thermodynamic descriptions with models that were assessed from experimental data. The OC...

Operando Measurements of Electrochemical (Charge-transfer) Processes

Ongoing
There are two ways to study a very fast process such as charge transfer. One can use very high-speed measurement that can follow the effect of the process, or one use a method that is sensitive only to the process itself. Either way has its weakness. Many fast measurements can follow the process...

Operational Technology Security

Ongoing
Operational technology (OT) encompasses a broad range of programmable systems or devices that interact with the physical environment (or manage devices that interact with the physical environment). These systems/devices detect or cause a direct change through the monitoring and/or control of devices...

Operations-driven Performance Measurement for Smart Manufacturing Systems

Ongoing
Objective: Develop and deploy standards, guidelines, and reference data for measuring the performance of manufacturing systems to inform the design and aid in analysis of factory improvements. Technical Idea: Manufacturers are adopting smart systems to drive gains in agility, productivity, quality...

Opioid Detection and Identification

Ongoing
Safe Handling Fentanyl can be 100 times stronger than heroin. Even deadly street drugs contain very small amounts of fentanyl, so it can be difficult to detect with methods used for other common drugs. NIST researchers developed a method sensitive enough to detect fentanyl on the outside of drug...

Optical Clock Atomic Structure and Theory

Ongoing
An atomic clock aims to realize the intrinsic ticking rate of an atom. This ticking rate (i.e., frequency) is associated with a transition between two quantum levels of the atom, where each level corresponds to a different configuration of the electrons around the nucleus. Atomic clocks derive their...

Optical/electrical particle measurement system

Completed
Intended Impact The results of this work should provide instrument manufacturers with data, methods, and algorithms for enhancing the clarity and accuracy of information their instruments provide to their customers. Users of these instruments (pharma companies) and regulators, will have better...

Optical grating scatterometry

Ongoing
In the past few years, scatterometry has emerged as a method for performing linewidth and line profile metrology, especially by the semiconductor industry. The method uses a periodic target containing repetitive lines whose profile, i.e., its width, height, and shape, is to be determined. The...

Yb Optical Lattice Clock

Ongoing
In recent years, optical clocks have achieved performance that is orders of magnitude beyond more traditional atomic clocks utilizing a microwave timebase. A particularly promising type of advanced optical clock is the optical lattice clock. At their heart, these systems use an ensemble of ultracold...

Optical medical imaging

Ongoing
Optical medical imaging technologies proliferate in academic research and yet very few translate into the clinic. Optical techniques have high spatial and spectral resolution, lends itself to portability, and inexpensive relative to conventional imaging modalities such as MRI (Magnetic Resonance...
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