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New Gas Standard Reference Materials to Support the Automotive Industry

Completed
NIST currently supports AIGER members by maintaining reasonable inventories of required gas SRMs that consist of dilute mixtures of key pollutants such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitric oxide. Newer vehicles produce lower levels of these pollutants because their engines

New Methods for Measurement of Sulfur in Fossil Fuels

Ongoing
NIST has a long history of developing high accuracy analytical methods and SRM materials for trace elements in fossil fuels. NIST has applied the microwave induced combustion methodology in combination with isotope dilution analysis for sulfur determinations, representing the first-reported

New Reference Standards for Digital Mammography

Ongoing
These beams will provide FDA inspectors, ionization chamber manufacturers, and calibration facilities with the spectra that best represent what is used in clinics. These new reference radiation techniques will be available for calibrations and the FDA-MQSA proficiency tests. The beam parameters are

Newtonian constant of gravitation international consortium

Ongoing
The disagreement calls into question our ability to measure small forces on a laboratory scale. It also raises the question of whether the Newtonian force law is a complete description of gravity at these distances. An international consortium is being formed to address this problem. The

Next Generation Fingerprint Technologies

Ongoing
Contactless Fingerprint Capture This project is conducting research in support of emerging non-contact fingerprint acquisition devices. Issues being addressed include: data format standards, best practices, development of methods for certification testing, and assessment of interoperability with

Next Generation Metrics for Cell-Based Therapies and Regenerative Medicines

Ongoing
The science of human health and disease often includes studies of cells, the smallest unit of biological complexity. Microscopic imaging is an important tool in these studies and can provide morphological and molecular information. Molecular microscopic data is most often collected in a static mode

NextG Channel Measurement and Modeling

Ongoing
NextG Channel Measurement NIST has designed and assembled a number of mmWave channel sounders: from the first generation of electronically switched horn antenna arrays, moving to virtual phased-array, and most recently we are transitioning to real phased-array channel sounders. Several features make

Night Vision Goggle Gain Calibration

Ongoing
NIST cooperates with the three services (Air Force, Navy, and Army) to realize a uniform night vision goggle (NVG) calibration system with low measurement uncertainty. These efforts include transferring the NIST detector-based radiance and luminance responsivity scales to the primary standards

NIST Accelerated Weathering Laboratory: Metrology and Operations Project

Ongoing
Objective - To maintain, improve and expand capabilities at the NIST Accelerated Weathering Laboratory (AWL) and to use the facility to conduct safe, accurate and traceable aging experiments. Enable the technology transfer of the SPHERE technology to industrial stakeholders. What is the new

NIST Assists in Marine-Related Disaster Response

Ongoing
NIST and the Biospecimen Science Group continue to collaborate with NOAA Fisheries, other federal and state agencies, and non-profit organizations to provide the ability to accurately assess exposure of marine animals to environmental stressors and provide a resource for retrospective analysis of

NIST Automated Vehicles Program

Ongoing
Measurement science and standards are needed to support the safe and predictable operation of future automated vehicles (AVs), which have great potential to significantly impact our daily lives and improve the competitiveness of our economy. A FY22 NIST Strategic and Emerging Research Initiatives

NIST and Autonomous Vehicles

Ongoing
Why Autonomous Vehicles? Autonomous vehicles are projected to influence key aspects of everyday life including transportation, goods delivery, manufacturing, public safety, and security. In addition, the autonomous vehicle sector is a vastly inter-disciplinary field with subject areas including

NIST Ballistics Toolmark Database

Ongoing
The database contains traditional reflectance microscopy images and three-dimensional surface topography data acquired by NIST or submitted by database users. The goal is a collection of data sets that: 1) represents the large variety of ballistic toolmarks encountered by forensic examiners, and 2)

The NIST Biorepository

Ongoing
The NBSB was established in 1979 at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD with a pilot project archiving human liver samples associated with collections through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). New collaborations and banking projects began to be established including the National Oceanic and

The NIST Chemistry Webbook

Ongoing
Intended Impact It is part of NIST's mission to distribute Standard Reference Data to scientists, engineers, educators, and the general public. The NIST Chemistry WebBook is intended to help fulfill NIST's mission by distributing such data over the Internet. Objective Develop a web site

NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science

Ongoing
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider

NIST Cloud Computing Program - NCCP

Ongoing
Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction

NIST Combinatorial Methods Center (NCMC)

Completed
Established in 2002, the NCMC combines pioneering research and customer engagement to foster wide-spread adaptation of combinatorial and high-throughput methodologies. NCMC research addresses key challenges faced by polymer researchers who want to employ combi. In particular, the NCMC creates new

NIST Data Resources for Adsorption

Ongoing
NIST/ARPA-e Database of Novel and Emerging Adsorbent Materials A centralized resource for the scientific community to find and compare single- and multi-component adsorption isotherms reported in the literature. The database sorts data according to adsorbent material, adsorbate species

NIST/EDRN Cancer Biomarker Collaboration

Ongoing
Our lab is one of the EDRN Biomarker Reference Laboratories working with the EDRN discovery labs to improve the quality of the measurements done on new cancer biomarkers for early detection of cancer and for cancer risk. TECHNICAL APPROACH Evaluate current assays used for detection of cancer

NIST Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies (ELFT)

Ongoing
Evaluation of Latent Friction Ridge Technology As of May 2020, NIST is relaunching its latent fingerprint technology research and broadening it to all types of friction ridges, including palms. The new evaluation picks up and greatly enhances the concept of operations described in ELFT-EFS

NIST Flow Cytometry Standards Consortium 

Ongoing
Advances in cell and gene-based therapeutics as well as other regenerative medicine products have increased the need for high quality, robust, and validated measurements for cell characterization. Flow cytometry, including imaging cytometry, has emerged as an important platform due to its ability to

NIST Food Protein Allergen Program

Ongoing
Food allergen management is an increasingly important economic and public health concern; therefore, accurate and reliable allergen measurements are a crucial component of the management pathway. Traditional methods for food allergen detection are based on immunoassay techniques and are linked to a