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Associate Director for Laboratory Programs

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PSCR Awards Over $750K for PSIAP Point Cloud City

October 1, 2018

PSCR awarded three applicants to the Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program Point Cloud City funding opportunity totaling over $750,000. The City of...

Glossary of Key Information Security Terms: NIST Requests Comments on its Online Glossary and Draft NISTIR 7298 Revision 3

September 28, 2018

11/14/2018: Comment Period Extension: Comments are now due by December 21, 2018. Since the release of Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 39 in 1976...

Privileged Account Management for the Financial Services Sector: Draft SP 1800-18 Now Available for Comment

September 28, 2018

Privileged accounts provide elevated, often unrestricted access to an organization's underlying information systems and technology, making them rich targets for...

Lecture Presented at the 2018 European Symposium on Fire Science

September 28, 2018

Dr. Isaac Leventon recently returned from Nancy, France, where he attended the 2018 European Symposium on Fire Safety Science (ESFSS 2018) to deliver a lecture...

NCCoE Published its First Draft of the NIST SP 1800-18, Privileged Account Management for the Financial Services Sector

September 28, 2018

The NCCoE published its first draft of the NIST SP 1800-18, Privileged Account Management for the Financial Services Sector . Comments are being accepted from...

NIST Launches Consortium to Support Development of Quantum Industry

September 28, 2018

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has signed a cooperative research and development...

NIST’s Electro-Optic Laser Pulses 100 Times Faster Than Usual Ultrafast Light

September 27, 2018

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used common electronics to build a laser that pulses 100 times more often than...

NIST Releases new version of Access Control Policy Tool (ACPT)

September 26, 2018

On September 20th Vincent Hu published new version of Access Control Policy Tool (ACPT), ACPT allows a user to compose, verify, test, and generate access...

Uncrunching the Frequency Spectrum

September 26, 2018

The squeeze is here, and the crunch is coming. Soon. Explosive demand for high-speed wireless communication is placing growing pressure on the limited frequency...

New NIST Instrument Will Give Scientists a Window on Change at the Nanoscale

September 26, 2018

It looks more like a long water main pipe than a microscope, but a new custom-built instrument at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

NICE Released the Fall 2018 eNewsletter

September 26, 2018

The Fall 2018 NICE eNewsletter has been published to provide subscribers information on academic, industry, and government developments related to the National...

Draft NISTIR 8228: Considerations for Managing IoT Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks Out for Public Comment

September 26, 2018

To help organizations address the cybersecurity and privacy threats against Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Registration Is Now Open for the NIST Workshop on Priority Data and Information Needs

September 25, 2018

As more communities take action to improve their overall resilience to natural, technological, and human-caused hazards, there is a growing recognition that...

Two vials, one with heroin and one with an equivalent dose of fentanyl, which is a much smaller amount.

New Protocol for Measuring Background Levels of Drugs in Crime Labs

September 25, 2018

When crime lab chemists handle evidence that contains illegal drugs, trace amounts of those drugs are inevitably released into the laboratory environment. When...

NIST Grant Supports Plastics Recycling Research

September 25, 2018

The National Institute of Standards and Technology and Troy University in Troy, Alabama have entered a cooperative agreement that will fund a center for...

Agenda Announced - 2018 NICE Conference and Expo

September 25, 2018

INNOVATIONS IN CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT NICE Conference and Expo November 6-7, 2018 Hyatt Regency Miami Miami, Florida The...

A green sea turtle is peaking its head above the ocean's surface while a rainbow appears in the sky over its head.

How Reliable Are Turtles for Measuring Ocean Trash and Marine Health?

September 25, 2018

When a sea turtle turns up dead on the beach, it often makes the news, especially if the death appears to result from plastic debris in the turtle’s stomach...

NIST details plans for reviewing the scientific foundations of forensic methods

September 24, 2018

NIST has published Draft NISTIR 8225, Scientific Foundation Reviews. This publication describes NIST’s approach to conducting scientific foundation reviews...

Considerations for Managing Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks: Draft NIST Internal Report 8228

September 24, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a rapidly evolving and expanding collection of diverse technologies that interact with the physical world. Yet many...

A Methodology for Determining Forensic Data Requirements for Detecting Hypervisor Attacks: NIST Releases Draft NIST Internal Report 8221

September 21, 2018

Hardware/server virtualization is now integral to the infrastructure of data centers used for cloud computing services and enterprise computing. However, the...

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Associate Director for Laboratory Programs

News and Updates

PSCR Awards Over $750K for PSIAP Point Cloud City

Glossary of Key Information Security Terms: NIST Requests Comments on its Online Glossary and Draft NISTIR 7298 Revision 3

Privileged Account Management for the Financial Services Sector: Draft SP 1800-18 Now Available for Comment

Lecture Presented at the 2018 European Symposium on Fire Science

NCCoE Published its First Draft of the NIST SP 1800-18, Privileged Account Management for the Financial Services Sector

NIST Launches Consortium to Support Development of Quantum Industry

NIST’s Electro-Optic Laser Pulses 100 Times Faster Than Usual Ultrafast Light

NIST Releases new version of Access Control Policy Tool (ACPT)

Uncrunching the Frequency Spectrum

New NIST Instrument Will Give Scientists a Window on Change at the Nanoscale

NICE Released the Fall 2018 eNewsletter

Draft NISTIR 8228: Considerations for Managing IoT Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks Out for Public Comment

Registration Is Now Open for the NIST Workshop on Priority Data and Information Needs

New Protocol for Measuring Background Levels of Drugs in Crime Labs

NIST Grant Supports Plastics Recycling Research

Agenda Announced - 2018 NICE Conference and Expo

How Reliable Are Turtles for Measuring Ocean Trash and Marine Health?

NIST details plans for reviewing the scientific foundations of forensic methods

Considerations for Managing Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks: Draft NIST Internal Report 8228

A Methodology for Determining Forensic Data Requirements for Detecting Hypervisor Attacks: NIST Releases Draft NIST Internal Report 8221

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Kick Off Event

To Improve Auto Coatings, New Tests Do More Than Scratch the Surface

NIST Updates Forensic Standard Reference Materials

NIST’s Encryption Standard Has Minimum $250 Billion Economic Benefit, According to New Study

NIST Releases Draft NIST Internal Report (NISTIR) 8222, Internet of Things (IoT) Trust Concerns

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