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2019 NICE Conference Agenda Is Now Available

September 11, 2019

2019 NICE Conference & Expo November 18 - 20, 2019 Sheraton Phoenix Downtown, Phoenix, AZ We are excited to share with you this year's agenda! Click the image...

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Sniffing Out Corpses and Other Signs of Trouble

September 10, 2019

Science stinks. So thought Megan Harries as she measured drops of putrescine and cadaverine — the chemicals that give decomposing corpses their distinctive...

Preliminary Draft of the NIST Privacy Framework

September 9, 2019

NIST seeks comments on the Preliminary Draft of the NIST Privacy Framework: A Tool for Improving Privacy through Enterprise Risk Management (“Preliminary Draft”...

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NIST Requests Comments on Draft Privacy Framework

September 9, 2019

Protecting our privacy while keeping the digital wheels of society turning may feel mutually exclusive at times, but a new tool from the National Institute of...

OSAC Adds Two Disaster Victim Identification Standards to the Registry

September 6, 2019

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) i s excited to announce two Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) documents have been...

OSAC Standards Bulletin, September 2019

September 5, 2019

This Bulletin provides an update on forensic science standards moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and those...

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NIST Team Shows Atoms Can Receive Common Communications Signals

September 5, 2019

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of sensor that uses atoms to receive commonly used...

Cyber Resiliency Engineering: Final Public Draft of NIST SP 800-160 Volume 2 Available for Comment

September 4, 2019

The goal of the NIST Systems Security Engineering initiative is to address security, safety, and resiliency issues from a stakeholder requirements and...

Brighter Future for LEDs: NIST Introduces New Lamp Calibration Lab

September 3, 2019

Question: How many measurement scientists does it take to screw in an LED lightbulb? Answer: For researchers at the National Institute of Standards and...

Lightweight Cryptography (LWC) Standardization: Round 2 Candidates Announced

August 30, 2019

NIST would like to announce the 32 candidates that will be moving on to the 2nd round of the NIST LWC Standardization Process. The second-round candidates of...

Guidelines for the Selection, Configuration, and Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) Implementations: NIST SP 800-52 Rev. 2

August 29, 2019

Given the nature of interconnected networks and the use of the internet to share information, the protection of sensitive data can become difficult if proper...

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Spotlight: The Robot Workcell Checkup

August 28, 2019

Your toe bone is connected to your foot bone, then your heel bone, then your ankle bone … so when something hurts, doctors at your checkup can go down the line...

Multiscale Polymer Dynamics in Hierarchical Carbon Nanotube Grafted Glass Fiber Reinforced Composites

August 27, 2019

NIST researchers utilized a suite of techniques typically reserved to investigate polymer dynamics and structure in nanocomposites with dispersed fillers to...

Register Now: The 2019 NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference

August 26, 2019

Register Now We’re thrilled to announce that Early Bird Registration pricing is now open for the 2019 NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference. The...

Fire Data Lab: bringing fire service data analytics into the twenty-first century

August 16, 2019

As the volume of available data swells and analysis methods grow ever more sophisticated, a growing number of public safety agencies are turning to data...

Newfound Superconductor Material Could Be the ‘Silicon of Quantum Computers’

August 15, 2019

A potentially useful material for building quantum computers has been unearthed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), whose scientists...

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Solving the Big Problem of Measuring Tiny Nanoparticles

August 14, 2019

Tiny nanoparticles play a gargantuan role in modern life, even if most consumers are unaware of their presence. They provide essential ingredients in sunscreen...

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Plan Outlines Priorities for Federal Agency Engagement in AI Standards Development

August 12, 2019

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a plan for prioritizing federal agency...

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NIST Awards $6.6 Million for Research to Help Structures Better Withstand Earthquakes, Wind and Fire

August 8, 2019

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is awarding more than $6.6 million to fund research...

Probing the Origin of Alzheimer’s . . . with Transistors

August 7, 2019

A prime suspect in the onset of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases is a normally benign enzyme that is essential to proper development of the nervous system...

Situational Awareness for Electric Utilities: NIST Publishes Cybersecurity Practice Guide SP 1800-7

August 7, 2019

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has published the final version of NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide SP 1800-7, Situational Awareness...

Security Strategies for Microservices-based Application Systems: NIST Publishes SP 800-204

August 7, 2019

Microservices architecture is increasingly being used to design, develop, and deploy large-scale application systems in both cloud-based and enterprise...

NIST Releases Draft Security Feature Recommendations for IoT Devices

August 1, 2019

Appliances from refrigerators to thermostats are now available in models that interact with a wireless network, making them easier to control with a computer or...

Core Cybersecurity Feature Baseline for Securable IoT Devices: Draft NISTIR 8259 Available for Comment

July 31, 2019

As manufacturers create an incredible and ever-growing variety of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, they should also understand the cybersecurity risks...

Multifactor Authentication for E-Commerce: NIST Publishes Cybersecurity Practice Guide SP 1800-17

July 30, 2019

As retailers in the United States have adopted chip-and-signature and chip-and-PIN (personal identification number) point-of-sale security measures, there have...

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