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Spotlight: Elijah Petersen's Professional Journey in Chemical Toxicity

May 28, 2020

Particles, big or small: NIST’s Elijah Petersen is ready to investigate them all. Walk through the phases of his professional journey in chemical toxicity...

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NIST Seeks Public Input on Use of Positioning, Navigation and Timing Services

May 27, 2020

Agency plans guidance to strengthen cybersecurity of related tech in response to White House order.

Building Secure Microservices-based Applications Using Service-Mesh Architecture: NIST Special Publication 800-204A Now Available

May 27, 2020

As microservices-based applications are increasingly deployed within large enterprises and cloud-based environments, dedicated and scalable infrastructure is...

Evidence suggests that the U.S. Loses Hundreds of Billions to Cybercrime, Possibly as much as 1 % to 4 % of GDP Annually

May 27, 2020

Cybercrime puts America’s competitive edge and economic future at risk; however, there is some debate as to the extent that this activity is impacting economic...

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NIST Formula May Help 5G Wireless Networks Efficiently Share Communications Frequencies

May 26, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a mathematical formula that, computer simulations suggest, could help 5G...

Exciting On-Demand Sessions to Catch at PSCR 2020

May 26, 2020

The Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting is an annual event that connects representatives from public safety, federal agencies, industry, and academia to...

Draft White Paper on "Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography" is Available for Comment

May 26, 2020

NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) is initiating the development of practices to ease the migration from the current set of public-key...

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NIST Researchers Boost Microwave Signal Stability a Hundredfold

May 21, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used state-of-the-art atomic clocks, advanced light detectors, and a measurement...

PSCR Awards More Than $800K to Tech to Protect Contestants

May 21, 2020

NIST’s largest open innovation prize competition to date awarded $810,000 to contestants at the Tech to Protect Challenge National Award Event on May 1, 2020...

Assessing Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) Programs: NIST Special Publication 800-137A Now Available

May 21, 2020

Federal agencies are directed to implement a program to continuously monitor their organizational information security status. NIST Special Publication (SP) 800...

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NIST Team Builds Hybrid Quantum System by Entangling Molecule With Atom

May 20, 2020

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have boosted their control of the fundamental properties of molecules at the quantum...

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NIST Study Measures Performance Accuracy of Contactless Fingerprinting Tech

May 19, 2020

NIST evaluated 6 contactless fingerprinting tools, comparing their performance to devices that require physical contact.

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Spotlight: SURF and Solar Storms

May 14, 2020

When the surface of the Sun erupts, it emits dangerous particles that can knock out GPS and communication links on our planet, but the rain of particles from a...

Two New Forensic DNA Standards Added to the OSAC Registry

May 12, 2020

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science has placed two new standards covering the interpretation of DNA evidence on its...

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Spotlight: Yoshi Ohno and the Vision Lab

May 12, 2020

In arguably the coziest laboratory on NIST’s campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland, fellow Yoshi Ohno and his colleagues make measurements on the white light...

NIST Scientists Create New Recipe for Single-Atom Transistors

May 11, 2020

Once unimaginable, transistors consisting only of several-atom clusters or even single atoms promise to become the building blocks of a new generation of...

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NIST Identifies Critical Needs for Improved Plumbing

May 11, 2020

We don’t use water like we used to. In recent decades, concerns about cost, water shortages and environmental impacts together with changes in plumbing design...

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Spotlight: Thermal Insulation SRM in Space

May 8, 2020

Feeling hot, hot, hot … but this thermal insulation standard reference material (SRM 1450e) can help you take the heat, both in an apartment building and in...

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NIST Helps Expand Genome Sequencing of Marine Mammals

May 7, 2020

Researchers will soon have access to the full genomic sequences for 23 marine mammal species preserved by the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

NICE Released the Spring 2020 eNewsletter

May 6, 2020

The Spring 2020 NICE eNewsletter has been published to provide subscribers information on academic, industry, and government developments related to the...

NIST Publishes Special Publication (SP) 800-57 Part 1, Revision 5, "Recommendation for Key Management: Part 1 – General"

May 4, 2020

NIST has updated its key management guidance in S pecial Publication (SP) 800-57 Part 1 Revision 5, Recommendation for Key Management: Part 1 – General. This...

NIST Publishes Special Publication (SP) 800-57 Part 1, Revision 5, "Recommendation for Key Management: Part 1 – General"

May 4, 2020

NIST has updated its key management guidance in Special Publication (SP) 800-57 Part 1 Revision 5, Recommendation for Key Management: Part 1 – General. This...

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Associate Director for Laboratory Programs

News and Updates

Spotlight: Elijah Petersen's Professional Journey in Chemical Toxicity

NIST Seeks Public Input on Use of Positioning, Navigation and Timing Services

Building Secure Microservices-based Applications Using Service-Mesh Architecture: NIST Special Publication 800-204A Now Available

Evidence suggests that the U.S. Loses Hundreds of Billions to Cybercrime, Possibly as much as 1 % to 4 % of GDP Annually

NIST Formula May Help 5G Wireless Networks Efficiently Share Communications Frequencies

Exciting On-Demand Sessions to Catch at PSCR 2020

Draft White Paper on "Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography" is Available for Comment

NIST Researchers Boost Microwave Signal Stability a Hundredfold

PSCR Awards More Than $800K to Tech to Protect Contestants

Assessing Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) Programs: NIST Special Publication 800-137A Now Available

NIST Team Builds Hybrid Quantum System by Entangling Molecule With Atom

NIST Study Measures Performance Accuracy of Contactless Fingerprinting Tech

Spotlight: SURF and Solar Storms

Two New Forensic DNA Standards Added to the OSAC Registry

Spotlight: Yoshi Ohno and the Vision Lab

NIST Scientists Create New Recipe for Single-Atom Transistors

NIST Identifies Critical Needs for Improved Plumbing

Spotlight: Thermal Insulation SRM in Space

NIST Helps Expand Genome Sequencing of Marine Mammals

NICE Released the Spring 2020 eNewsletter

NIST Publishes Special Publication (SP) 800-57 Part 1, Revision 5, "Recommendation for Key Management: Part 1 – General"

NIST Publishes Special Publication (SP) 800-57 Part 1, Revision 5, "Recommendation for Key Management: Part 1 – General"

Spotlight: George Quinn and Roman Glass Fractography

"A Slice of America" Through a Firefighter's Eyes

Symposium on Federally Funded Research on Cybersecurity of Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE): NISTIR 8294

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