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Projects/Programs

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Automated Vehicles and AV Communications

Ongoing
Automated vehicles (AVs) will significantly impact our daily lives and improve the competitiveness of our economy. Advances in communications capabilities – for

5G/6G Core Networks and Services

Ongoing
This program aims to advance networking and measurement sciences and promote consensus standards and best practices for the evolution from 5G to 6G, focusing on

Digital Thread for Manufacturing

Ongoing
The Digital Thread for Manufacturing project will deliver methods, protocols, and tools for developing, conformance testing, increasing user-awareness, and

Edge AI

Ongoing
With significant technology advancement and growing commercialization of edge/fog computing, edge AI (artificial intelligence) has now become a new frontier

Information Centric Networking Program

Ongoing
Information access is the dominant use case in today's Internet with more than 90% of Internet traffic being content distribution, mainly due to video streaming

Internet Infrastructure Protection

Ongoing
ITL’s Internet Infrastructure Protection (IIP) program, led by the Advanced Network Technologies Division (ANTD), works with industry to develop the measurement

Mobile Cloud Computing

Ongoing
The Mobile Cloud Computing project looks at architectures and protocols of next generation infrastructures that exploit the synergy between Mobile devices

NIST Automated Vehicles Program

Ongoing
Building on a successful first-year Strategic and Emerging Research Initiatives (SERI) project NIST and Autonomous Vehicles (see 2022 NIST AV workshop and

NIST Industrial Wireless 5G Testbed

Ongoing
The NIST 5G Industrial Wireless Testbed is a pioneering project designed to reshape industrial connectivity by deploying and evaluating 5th generation (5G)

Quantum Optical Networks

Ongoing
This program develops new measurement techniques, tests and performance procedures, standards, and best practices to enable industry and government to gain

Smart Grid Communication Networks

Ongoing
While there is a clear need for communication networks supporting reliable information transfer between the various entities in the electric grid, there are

Systems Analysis Integration

Ongoing
Smart manufacturing system development and operations are difficult to manage because information about the systems and their analysis is expressed in redundant

Trustworthy Intelligent Networks

Ongoing
NIST is working with industry and academia to improve the trustworthiness and applicability of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to

Trustworthy Networks Program

Ongoing
NIST works with industry partners to advance the research, standardization and adoption of technologies necessary to increase the security, privacy, resilience