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Projects/Programs

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Smart Infrastructure and Manufacturing

Ongoing
The U.S. economy relies on communications-enabled infrastructure and manufacturing for its fundamental operations as a society. The Internet of Things drives how we work, play, and live. From smart manufacturing systems to smart grid, intelligent vehicles, thriving communities, smart homes, and

Smart Manufacturing Systems Design and Analysis Program

Ongoing
Smart Manufacturing has the potential to fundamentally change how products are designed, manufactured, supplied, used, remanufactured and eventually retired. Current smart manufacturing implementations are mostly at the plant level, and use information technology, sensor networks, computerized

Structural Metrology of Advanced Manufacturing Processes

Ongoing
Understanding material structures in advanced manufacturing is crucial because it enables precise control over material properties, leading to improved performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness in production processes. However, this understanding poses many challenges, such as the

Sustainable Engineered Materials

Ongoing
NIST will advance measurement science tools to reliably assess the performance of sustainable materials for the manufacturing, construction, and transportation industries. These industrial sectors must meet demands for higher performance, multi-functionality, and for longer life to ensure a

Sustainable Manufacturing Program

Ongoing
Objective: To develop and deploy advances in measurement science to achieve sustainability across manufacturing processes enabling resource efficiency and production network resiliency by 2016. What is the problem? Industrial interest in sustainable manufacturing has increased dramatically in recent

Uniform Unit Pricing: Tools for Consumers to Fight Shrinkflation

Ongoing
What is Shrinkflation? Many consumers across the U.S. are increasingly aware of the decreasing quantity for many of the products that they regularly purchase and consume. This concept is know as product downsizing or “s hrinkflation”, a term used to describe how a consumer product is sold at the

Ventilation Performance for Novel Sustainability and Resilience Challenges

Ongoing
Objective: To develop tools, metrics, and data to enable sustainable, resilient, high-performance building and ventilation system design and operation in response to current and future challenges driven by climate change, airborne disease transmission, and other developing hazards. Also, to develop

Water Measurement Science

Ongoing
Measurements and Standards for Contaminants in Water Accurate measurements of contaminants in water are critical to ensure the usability and safety of our water supplies. NIST has developed Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) for validating or calibrating methods for inorganic contaminants including

Wide-area Monitoring and Control of Smart Grid

Completed
Objective: To develop and verify innovative sensing systems and take full advantage of existing ones such as smart meters, PMUs, Merging Units (Mus), and other intelligent electric devices (IEDs), to enable greater electric grid resiliency, reliability, flexibility, and sustainability through