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2020 Baldrige Examiner Training Experience (Cancelled)

January 22, 2020

The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is offering a limited number of seats in its 2020 examiner training course for a fee through its Baldrige Examiner

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Wildland Data Logistics Network: Always there with delay

January 21, 2020

Since 2000, an average of 72,000 wildfires per year have cleared seven million acres of land in the United States. 2015 was the largest wildfire year in

Seeking Input on the Baldrige Excellence Framework

January 21, 2020

What are the top strategic and competitiveness challenges you are facing in your organization or sector (or seeing in the organizations you work with)? What are

An In-Depth Look into Intellectual Property: Part Two

January 21, 2020

Identify NIST Intellectual Property A foundational step in the NIST intellectual property (IP) strategy is to identify the IP developed from NIST’s research and

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 Requesting Information to Upgrade the iEdison System

January 15, 2020

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) plans to begin modernizing the Interagency Edison System (iEdison) by using feedback and insights from

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

Reminder for 2020 Baldrige Award Applicants: Send Eligibility Forms by February 12

January 13, 2020

If your organization or one you know is interested in applying for a 2020 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, please note that your Eligibility

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NIST to Revamp iEdison Tool for Reporting Federally Funded Inventions

January 13, 2020

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — As part of its efforts to improve the transfer of federally funded technologies from lab to market, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s

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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

An In-Depth Look into Intellectual Property: Part One

January 10, 2020

Introduction NIST has a broad mission to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards and technology in

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

NIST Publishes 2018 Department of Commerce Laboratories Technology Transfer Report

December 31, 2019

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued the U.S. Department of Commerce’s (DOC) 2018 Annual Report on Technology Transfer. 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

Maryland Department of Commerce’s inaugural Maryland Innovation & Technology (MINT) Series

December 23, 2019

BETHESDA, Md. – More than 200 personnel from the federal government, industry, academia and economic development entities registered for Maryland Department of

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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 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

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

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

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