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New Tool to Account for Uncertainty

January 20, 2020

Cost examinations often run into the challenge of data uncertainty, where variables in the calculation (e.g., price of gasoline) will fluctuate over the study...

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Spotlight: Young Jong Lee

January 18, 2020

What are you made of? With a new measurement technique from NIST’s Young Jong Lee, scientists can answer that question on the cellular level with 100 times more...

Building Secure Microservices-Based Applications Using Service-Mesh Architecture: Draft SP 800-204A is Available for Comment

January 17, 2020

As microservices-based applications are increasingly adopted within large enterprises and cloud-based environments, there is a need for a dedicated, scalable...

NIST Releases Version 1.0 of Privacy Framework

January 16, 2020

Our data-driven society has a tricky balancing act to perform: building innovative products and services that use personal data while still protecting people’s...

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Spotlight: Greta Babakhanova

January 15, 2020

Meet Greta Babakhanova, a postdoctoral researcher here at NIST with boundless drive and a passion for reducing human suffering. It’s an ambitious goal that, for...

NIST Publishes "A Taxonomic Approach to Understanding Emerging Blockchain Identity Management Systems"

January 14, 2020

Traditional identity management has typically involved the storing of user credentials (e.g., passwords) by organizations and third parties, which often results...

Assessing Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) Programs: NIST Releases Draft SP 800-137A for Comment

January 13, 2020

Federal agencies, under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) circulars and memoranda...

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Spotlight: Silicon-28 in Quantum Computers

January 11, 2020

Silicon, found everywhere from the brick in your fireplace to the sand between your toes at the beach, also forms the basis of microchips in conventional...

NICE Released the Winter 2019-20 eNewsletter

January 9, 2020

The Winter 2019-20 NICE eNewsletter has been published to provide subscribers information on academic, industry, and government developments related to the...

NIST Releases Second Draft of NISTIR 8259, "Recommendations for IoT Device Manufacturers"

January 7, 2020

An incredible variety and volume of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are being produced. Manufacturers can help their customers by improving how securable the...

What to Catch at the PSCR Booth During CES 2020

December 30, 2019

In January, NIST's Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division will exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for the fourth time. Division staff...

NIST Study Suggests Universal Method for Measuring Light Power

December 20, 2019

Always on the lookout for better ways to measure all kinds of things, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have published a...

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Counting Photons Is Now Routine Enough to Need Standards

December 20, 2019

Since the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) built its first superconducting devices for counting photons (the smallest units of light) in...

NIST Study Evaluates Effects of Race, Age, Sex on Face Recognition Software

December 19, 2019

How accurately do face recognition software tools identify people of varied sex, age and racial background? According to a new study by the National Institute...

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Spotlight: NCNR Microwave Instrument Installation

December 18, 2019

Deep inside the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), scientists assembled a new instrument to explore materials that could be important for quantum...

NIST Publishes SP 800-189, Resilient Interdomain Traffic Exchange: BGP Security and DDoS Mitigation

December 17, 2019

In recent years, numerous routing control plane anomalies such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), prefix hijacking, and route leaks have resulted in denial of...

A New Playbook for Interference

December 17, 2019

Particles can sometimes act like waves, and photons (particles of light) are no exception. Just as waves create an interference pattern, like ripples on a pond...

Top 5 NIST PSCR Articles of 2019

December 16, 2019

From technology deployments to prize challenges and outreach across the country (and abroad), 2019 was a tremendously successful year for NIST's Public Safety...

Tracking Lab-Grown Tissue With Light

December 12, 2019

Someday, doctors would like to grow limbs and other body tissue for soldiers who have lost arms in battle, children who need a new heart or liver, and many...

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NIST Releases Data to Help Measure Accuracy of Biometric Identification

December 12, 2019

New biometric research data — ranging from fingerprints to facial photographs and iris scans — is now available from the National Institute of Standards and...

The Spectronn SiFi Router

December 12, 2019

Resilient communications and computing are key metrics for public safety applications and services. If the transmission of mission-critical data relies solely...

Recommendation for Stateful Hash-Based Signature Schemes: Draft NIST SP 800-208 Available for Comment

December 11, 2019

NIST invites comments on Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-208, Recommendation for Stateful Hash-Based Signature Schemes. All of the digital signature...

OSAC's Friction Ridge Subcommittee Develops Friction Ridge Process Map

December 10, 2019

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science’s Friction Ridge Subcommittee has developed a friction ridge examination process map...

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Kennedy Assassination Bullets Preserved in Digital Form

December 5, 2019

In the palm of his hand, Thomas Brian Renegar held two small metal objects that had changed the course of history. Twisted pieces of copper and lead, they were...

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New NIST Beamlines Now Open at Brookhaven for Materials Research

December 3, 2019

On Nov. 6, 2019, NIST celebrated the opening of three new X-ray beamlines at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National...

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